Measurement of water content distribution on skin surface using polarization imaging

Author

Arimoto, Hidenobu

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol., Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

2004

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

25

Abstract

A new method for measuring two-dimensional water content distribution on skin surface is presented. Water content of the stratum corneum affects the scattering properties over the skin surface. The difference of the scattering properties are visualized by introducing the polarization imaging technique. Polarization imaging enables us to divide reflected light into polarization maintained light and depolarized light which correspond to superficially reflected light and deeply penetrated light, respectively.

Keywords

bio-optics; biomedical measurement; biomedical optical imaging; light polarisation; light reflection; light scattering; skin; water; H₂O; deeply penetrated light; depolarized light; polarization imaging technique; scattering properties; skin surface; stratum corneum; superficially reflected light; two-dimensional water content distribution measurement; Capacitance measurement; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Light scattering; Light sources; Optical imaging; Optical polarization; Optical scattering; Skin; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biophotonics, 2004. APBP 2004. The Second Asian and Pacific Rim Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8676-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APBP.2004.1412259

Filename

1412259