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Emissivity of human skin

June 30, 2010

Novel approach to assess the emissivity of the human skin J. Biomed. Opt., Vol. 14, 024006 (2009); DOI:10.1117/1.3086612 Published 6 March 2009 by: Francisco J. Sanchez-Marin, Sergio Calixto-Carrera, and Carlos Villaseñor-Mora Centro de investigaciones en optica, Loma del Bosque 115, Lomas del Campestre, Leon, Guanajuato 37150, Mexico Abstract: To study the radiation emitted by the [...]

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Spectral emissivity of skin and pericardium

May 5, 2009

Spectral emissivity of skin and pericardium by J Steketee 1973 Phys. Med. Biol. 18 686-694 doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/18/5/307 Help J Steketee, Department of Biological and Medical Physics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Abstract. A monochromator was modified to measure the emissivity, ?(?), of living tissue in the infrared region between 1 and 14 ?m. The infrared [...]

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Non-contact skin emissivity: measurement from reflectance

May 5, 2009

Reference Title:Non-contact skin emissivity: measurement from reflectance using step change in ambient radiation temperature Citation: T Togawa 1989 Clin. Phys. Physiol. Meas. 10 39-48 doi: 10.1088/0143-0815/10/1/004 Article by T Togawa of Inst. for Med. & Dental Eng., Tokyo Med. & Dental Univ., Japan Abstract. A method of estimating skin emissivity based on reflectance measurement upon [...]

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