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Quantitative assessment of skin layers absorption and skin reflectance spectra simulation in the visible and near-infrared spectral regions
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We have simulated diffuse reflectance spectra of skin by assuming a wavelength-independent scattering coefficient for the different skin tissues and using the known wavelength dependence of the absorption coefficient of oxy- and deoxyhaemoglobin and water. A stochastic Monte Carlo method is used to convert the wavelength-dependent absorption coefficient and wavelength-independent scattering coefficient into reflected intensity. The absorption properties of skin tissues in the visible and near-infrared spectral regions are estimated by taking into account the spatial distribution of blood vessels, water and melanin content within distinct anatomical layers. The geometrical peculiarities of skin histological structure, degree of blood oxygenation and the haematocrit index are also taken into account. We demonstrate that when the model is supplied with reasonable physical and structural parameters of skin, the results of the simulation agree reasonably well with the results of in vivo measurements of skin spectra.
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“Figure 7(a) shows that at all wavelengths measured in the published data, more than 69% of light was transmitted beyond a penetration depth (l) of 0.1 mm, which corresponds to the average thickness of the epidermis.43”
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“and therefore, more than 1% of light has the potential to be transmitted beyond skin with a total depth of 1.93 mm, the average combined depth of epidermis and dermis described by Meglinski and Matcher.43”
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“Publications by Doornbos et al.38 and Meglinski and Matcher43 were the most cited with 673 and 544 citations, respectively.”
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“The thickness of the epidermis and dermis used were taken from Meglinski et al., and used as an example of average skin layer depths [58].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Meglinski, I. V., & Matcher, S. J.
- Affiliations
- Cranfield University (GB)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- Venue
- Physiological Measurement
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2002-10-17
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 741-753
- ISSN
- 0967-3334 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2053040583
- Cited by
- 408
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 22 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 15
- FWCI
- 4.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Physiological Measurement (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- CERES (Cranfield University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biophysics › Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry
- Keywords
- diffuse reflectance, Monte Carlo light transport, hemoglobin absorption, melanin, water uptake (human physiology), skin histology, blood oxygenation, hematocrit, skin layers, visible and near-infrared spectroscopy, spectral simulation
- MeSH terms
- Absorption, Algorithms, Humans, Light, Models, Biological, Monte Carlo Method, Skin, Skin Physiological Phenomena, Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared, Optics and Photonics
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