Technical Note: Comparing von Luschan skin color tiles and modern spectrophotometry for measuring human skin pigmentation

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 325-330

  Swiatoniowski, Anna K ^a   Quillen, Ellen E ^a,b   Shriver, Mark D ^a   Jablonski, Nina G ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

conversion; historical skin color data; M index; reflectometry; skin color matching

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARM; ARTICLE; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; FOREHEAD; HAND; HUMAN; JACKKNIFE TEST; MEASUREMENT; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETER; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VON LUSCHAN SKIN COLOR TILES;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ARM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOREHEAD; HAND; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 84878108658     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22274     Document Type: Article

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