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This study is looking for healthy volunteers from a Black or Asian ethnic background to help develop an imaging system to measure oxygenation in the skin of the hands and help understand how oxygenation imaging varies in people with different skin tones. The results will help determine whether this system may be better than currently used techniques in the management of people with systemic sclerosis (scleroderma).

This research is being carried out by research teams from the Department of Rheumatology at Salford Royal Hospital and the University of Manchester and forms part of a PhD project. It is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).