Effect of ambient humidity on light transmittance through skin phantoms during cryogen spray cooling

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 113-120

  Ramirez San Juan, Julio C ^a,b   Choi, Bernard ^a   Franco, Walfre ^c   Nelson, J Stuart ^a   Aguilar, Guillermo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CHROMOPHORES; COOLING; DERMATOLOGY; LASER SURGERY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SKIN; VAPORS;

CRYOGENIC SPRAY COOLING (CSC); EPIDERMAL DAMAGE; LIGHT TRANSMITTANCE; SPURT TERMINATION;

CRYOGENICS;

AGAR; WATER;

AEROSOL; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; COOLING; CRYOTHERAPY; EPIDERMIS; FREEZING; HUMIDITY; LIGHT; LIGHT SCATTERING; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SURFACE; THERMAL INJURY; WATER VAPOR;

AEROSOL PROPELLANTS; COLD; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS; LIGHT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 29144447341     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/1/008     Document Type: Article

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