Identification of Skin Electrical Injury Using Infrared Imaging: A Possible Complementary Tool for Histological Examination

@article{Zhang2017IdentificationOS,
  title={Identification of Skin Electrical Injury Using Infrared Imaging: A Possible Complementary Tool for Histological Examination},
  author={Ji Zhang and Wei Lin and Han-cheng Lin and Zhenyuan Wang and Hongmei Dong},
  journal={PLoS ONE},
  year={2017},
  volume={12},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:10050528}
}
F Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy in combination with chemometrics as a complementary tool for providing an relatively objective diagnosis of electrical mark is introduced.
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