title: Thermal injury of skin and subcutaneous tissues: A review of experimental approaches and numerical models.
abstract: Thermal injury to skin and subcutaneous tissue is common in both civilian and combat scenarios. Understanding the change in tissue morphologies and properties and the underlying mechanisms of thermal injury are of vital importance to clinical determination of the degree of burn and treatment approach. This review aims at summarizing the research involving experimental and numerical studies of skin and subcutaneous tissue subjected to thermal injury. The review consists of two parts. The first part deals with experimental studies including burn protocols and prevailing imaging approaches. The second part deals with existing numerical models for burns of tissue and related computational simulations. Based on this review, we conclude that though there is literature contributing to the knowledge of the pathology and pathogenesis of tissue burn, there is scant quantitative information regarding changes in tissue properties including mechanical, thermal, electrical and optical properties as a result of burns that are linked to altered tissue morphology.
authors.affiliation: Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine (CeMSIM), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Hanglin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.affiliation: Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine (CeMSIM), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. Electronic address: des@rpi.edu.
authors.forename: Suvranu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: De
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D055119:Elastic Modulus / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D012867:Skin / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology*; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D040521:Subcutaneous Tissue / Q000473:pathology*; D013814:Thermal Conductivity
keywords: Burn imaging; Burning experiment protocols; Review; Soft tissue burns; Thermal injury mechanisms; Thermal injury simulations