Thermal transport characteristics of human skin measured in vivo using ultrathin conformal arrays of thermal sensors and actuators

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Webb, R Chad ^a   Pielak, Rafal M ^b   Bastien, Philippe ^c   Ayers, Joshua ^a   Niittynen, Juha ^e   Kurniawan, Jonas ^d   Manco, Megan ^e   Lin, Athena ^a   Cho, Nam Heon ^a   Malyrchuk, Viktor ^a   Balooch, Guive ^b,e   Rogers, John A ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b L'Oreal California Research Center   (United States)

^c L ORÉAL RECHERCHE   (France)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e L' Oréal Early Clinical ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEEK; CLINICAL STUDY; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; IN VIVO STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SENSOR; SKIN; STRATUM CORNEUM; TEMPERATURE RELATED PHENOMENA; THERMAL ACTUATOR; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY; THERMAL SENSOR; THERMAL TRANSPORT; WATER CONTENT; WRIST; ALGORITHM; BLOOD FLOW; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOSENSING;

EID: 84922621748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118131     Document Type: Article

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