New laser Doppler scanner, a valuable adjunct in burn depth assessment.

A new medical instrument is presented that produces a doppler blood flow image from a laser beam in a raster pattern and the results of a pilot study which shows this technique to be highly accurate in assessing burn depth is described.

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