Optical properties of the medulla and the cortex of human scalp hair

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Kharin, Aleksey ^a   Varghese, Babu ^a   Verhagen, Rieko ^a   Uzunbajakava, Natallia ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

collimated transmittance measurement; cortex optical properties; hair optical properties; hair total attenuation coefficient; medulla optical properties

Indexed keywords

COLLIMATED TRANSMITTANCE; CORTEX OPTICAL PROPERTIES; HAIR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; HAIR TOTAL ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; MEDULLA OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HAIR; HUMAN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

HAIR; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 67650296223     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3116712     Document Type: Article

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