Objective In this study, an instrument with blood flow imaging and temperature stimulation was designed to measure the characteristics of pressure ulcer areas and non-pressure ulcer areas, and the parameters of animal pressure ulcer models were measured to verify that the instrument is in the early diagnosis of pressure ulcers. Methods The system is mainly composed of a camera, a ring light source, a laser diode, a telephoto temperature sensor, and a liquid nitrogen injector. It can realize laser speckle blood flow imaging, and at the same time use a liquid nitrogen injector to cool the skin, so that the system can obtain dynamic skin blood flow characteristic. Using fat emulsion to simulate blood flow to verify the accuracy of the blood flow velocity measurement of the system. Early pressure ulcer model for 5 rabbits was created by applying pressure of 200 mmHg on the back of rabbit under pressure for 1 h, and then restoring blood flow for 20 min, and repeating it twice. The instrument was used to perform blood flow imaging and blood flow parameter analysis on the whole process from the animal pressure ulcer model temperature reduction to the temperature recovery. Results In the system performance test results, the flow rate obtained by the speckle value measured by the system is directly proportional to the actual flow rate of the fat emulsion. In animal experiment test results, the time to peak of the non-pressure ulcer area and the pressure ulcer area were 89.88 ± 5.70s and 112.69 ± 19.67s, respectively, and the P value was 0.037, which had a significant difference, which can be used as the distinguishing feature between the pressure ulcer area and the non-pressure ulcer area. Conclusions The instrument designed in this study provides an objective method for early diagnosis of pressure ulcers, and it will provide a new idea for early diagnosis of pressure ulcers.
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