Skin from various ethnic origins and aging: An in vivo cross-sectional multimodality imaging study

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 306-313

  Querleux, Bernard ^a   Baldeweck, Thérèse ^a   Diridollou, Stéphane ^b   De Rigal, Jean ^a   Huguet, Etienne ^a   Leroy, Frédéric ^a   Holloway Barbosa, Victoria ^b  

^a L ORÉAL RECHERCHE   (France)

^b Institute for Ethnic Hair and Skin Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Ethnic skin; Optical coherence tomography; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE EFFECTS; AGE-RELATED; AGING; CAUCASIANS; DERMAL-EPIDERMAL JUNCTIONS; ECHOGENIC; ETHNIC GROUPS; ETHNIC POPULATIONS; ETHNIC SKIN; IMAGING METHOD; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; MULTIMODALITY IMAGING; NON-INVASIVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PAPILLARY DERMIS; QUANTITATIVE PARAMETERS; SKIN IMAGING; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COHERENT LIGHT; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MEXICAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN STRUCTURE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ASIAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650682456     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2009.00365.x     Document Type: Article

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