Refractive indices of human skin tissues at eight wavelengths and estimated dispersion relations between 300 and 1600 nm
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- 1 March 2006
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Vol. 51 (6), 1479-1489
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/51/6/008
Abstract
The refractive index of human skin tissues is an important parameter in characterizing the optical response of the skin. We extended a previously developed method of coherent reflectance curve measurement to determine the in vitro values of the complex refractive indices of epidermal and dermal tissues from fresh human skin samples at eight wavelengths between 325 and 1557 nm. Based on these results, dispersion relations of the real refractive index have been obtained and compared in the same spectral region.Keywords
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