Remittance spectroscopy mapping of human skin in vivo

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-52

  Karamfilov, Theodor ^a   Weichold, Sven ^a   Karte, Kerstin ^a   Vilser, Walthard ^b   Wollina, Uwe ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human skin; Remittance spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; MELANIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK; BIOENGINEERING; CHEEK; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; FORCE; FOREARM; HAND; HAND PALM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN; SKIN SURFACE; SPECTROSCOPY; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 0032956045     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.1999.tb00204.x     Document Type: Article

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