The Clinical Evaluation of Vein Contrast Enhancement

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1-2004

Keywords

Clinical, Infrared, Vein

Abstract

A Vein Contrast Enhancer (VCE) has been constructed to make vein access easier by capturing an infrared image of veins, enhancing the contrast using software, and projecting the vein image back onto the skin. The VCE also uses software to align the projected image with the vein to 0.06 mm. Clinical evaluation of earlier monitor-based vein enhancement test systems has demonstrated the clinical utility of the infrared imaging technology used in the VCE.

Journal Title

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volume

26 II

First Page

1203

Last Page

1206

First Department

Engineering

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