Computer simulation of skin color based on a multilayered skin model

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 36-41

  Takiwaki, Hirotsugu ^a,b   Kanno, Yoshiyuki ^a   Miyaoka, Yuki ^a   Arase, Seiji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Reflectance; Skin color; Videomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; MELANIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROSCOPE; SKIN COLOR; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0030975633     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.1997.tb00157.x     Document Type: Article

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