Melanin and blood concentration in a human skin model studied by multiple regression analysis: Assessment by Monte Carlo simulation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 2397-2406

  Shimada, M ^a   Yamada, Y ^b,c   Itoh, M ^d   Yatagai, T ^d  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SKIN;

MELANIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LAW; MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SKIN; SKIN COLOR; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BIOPHYSICS; BLOOD; HUMANS; LIGHT; LINEAR MODELS; MELANINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0034824296     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/9/309     Document Type: Article

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