Title :
Assessing human skin with light
Author :
Kollias, Nikiforos
Author_Institution :
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Co, Skillman, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We present a variety of methods based on optical spectroscopy for assessing human skin health status.
Keywords :
bio-optics; biomolecular effects of radiation; infrared spectroscopy; patient diagnosis; skin; ultraviolet spectroscopy; visible spectroscopy; bilirubin; blood chromophores; collagen; deoxyhemoglobin; dynamic testing; edema; elastin; epidermal markers; fluorescence measurements; hemoglobin moieties; human skin health status assessment; in vivo skin function; in vivo skin structure; keratin; lipids; melanin; methemoglobin; multiple chromophore assessment; optical spectroscopy; oxyhemoglobin; reflectance measurements; structural matrix elements; tryptophan; Biomedical optical imaging; Data mining; Humans; Optical imaging; Optical reflection; Optical variables measurement; Skin;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
