Optical Measurement of Anastomotic Oxygenation Dynamics

• DOI: 10.1364/biomed.2014.bs3a.23
• Publication Date: 2014-04-24T13:56:13Z
• Authors: Neil T. Clancy; Shobhit Arya; Richard Corbett; Mohan Singh; Danail Stoyanov; Jeremy S. Crane; Neill Duncan; Martin Ebner; Colin G. Caro; George Hanna; Daniel S. Elson
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine

Oxygen supply is an important predictor of the integrity and viability of luminal structures after surgery. Multispectral imaging is used to study haemodynamics during small bowel anastomosis and arterio-venous fistula formation surgery.