Quantitative assessment of skin layers absorption and skin reflectance spectra simulation in the visible and near-infrared spectral regions

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 741-753

  Meglinski, Igor V ^a   Matcher, Stephen J ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo (MC) simulation; Near infrared spectroscopy (NIR); Optical properties of skin; Skin blood content

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; HISTOLOGY; INFRARED DEVICES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TISSUE; WATER ABSORPTION;

BLOOD CONTENT; INDEPENDENT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO'S SIMULATION; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRAL REGIONS; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTY OF SKIN; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SKIN BLOOD CONTENT; SKIN TISSUE; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

MELANIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; COMPUTER MODEL; HEMATOCRIT; HISTOLOGY; INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFLECTOMETRY; SKIN ABSORPTION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; WATER CONTENT; WAVEFORM; ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN; VASCULARIZATION;

OXY;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICS; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 0036853740     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/23/4/312     Document Type: Article

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