Thermal modeling and experimental validation of human hair and skin heated by broadband light

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 161-169

  Sun, Feng ^a   Chaney, Alex ^a   Anderson, Robert ^b   Aguilar, Guillermo ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b Aesthera Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Dermatology; Epilation; Hair removal; Intense pulsed light; IPL; Photopneumatic therapy; Selective photothermolysis; Skin vacuum

Indexed keywords

AGAR DIFFUSION; ARTICLE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; ESTHETICS; FOREARM; HAIR; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTON; PHOTOTHERAPY; PHOTOTHERMOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SKIN HUMIDITY; SKIN PROTECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDATION THERAPY;

HAIR; HAIR REMOVAL; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN; VACUUM;

EID: 60849132490     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20743     Document Type: Article

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