Hydration measurements of the stratum corneum: Comparison between the capacitance method (digital version of the Corneometer CM 825®) and the impedance method (Skicon-200EX®)

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 316-323

  Clarys, Peter ^a   Clijsen, Ron ^b   Taeymans, Jan ^c   Barel, André O ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b University College Physiotherapy Thim Van der Laan   (Switzerland)

^c BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Calibration; Capacitance; Conductance

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE METHOD; COMMERCIAL INSTRUMENTS; CONDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT; CONDUCTANCE VALUES; CORNEOMETER; DESORPTION KINETICS; DIFFERENT SOLVENTS; DIGITAL VERSIONS; IMPEDANCE METHOD; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; PLASTIC FOILS; STRATUM CORNEUM;

CALIBRATION; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; DESORPTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; EXPERIMENTS; INSTRUMENTS;

HYDRATION;

ELECTROLYTE; SOLVENT; WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CAPACITANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESORPTION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRODE; FILTER; HUMAN; HYDRATION; IMPEDANCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STRATUM CORNEUM;

ADULT; AGED; BODY WATER; CONDUCTOMETRY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; SKIN; WATER;

EID: 84863548720     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2011.00573.x     Document Type: Article

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