Absorption spectra of human skin in vivo in the ultraviolet wavelength range measured by optoacoustics

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-77

  Meinhardt, Merve ^a   Krebs, Ronald ^a   Anders, Angelika ^a   Heinrich, Ulrike ^b   Tronnier, Hagen ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SKIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ACOUSTICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 58349122187     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2008.00398.x     Document Type: Article

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