Shedding light on the variability of optical skin properties: finding a path towards more accurate prediction of light propagation in human cutaneous compartments
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case and recommend a solution towards a more accurate prediction of light propagation through cutaneous compartments. To achieve this, we undertook a novel, logical yet simple approach. We first reviewed scientific articles published between 1981 and 2013 that reported on skin optical properties, to reveal the spread in the reported quantitative values. We found variations of up to 100-fold. Then we extracted the most trust-worthy datasets guided by a rule that the spectral properties should reflect the specific biochemical composition of each of the skin layers. This resulted in the narrowing of the spread in the calculated photon densities to 6-fold. We conclude with a recommendation to use the identified most robust datasets when estimating light propagation in human skin using Monte Carlo simulations. Alternatively, otherwise follow our proposed strategy to screen any new datasets to determine their biological relevance.
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There are vast discrepancies in the optical properties of skin for measurements taken in-vivo, particularly with regards to scattering.
“As shown for ex-vivo data, we report vast discrepancies in the optical properties of skin for measurements taken in-vivo, particularly with regards to scattering [8].”
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- Authors
- Mignon, C., Tobin, D. J., Zeitouny, M., & Uzunbajakava, N. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Bradford (GB)
- Philips (Netherlands) (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Tobin, D. J.
- Venue
- Biomedical Optics Express
- Publisher
- Optica Publishing Group
- Published
- 2018-01-29
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 852
- ISSN
- 2156-7085 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5854084
- OpenAlex
- W2787183830
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 3.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Biomedical Optics Express (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Bradford Scholars (University of Bradford) (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- European Marie-Curie Actions Programme (607886)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
- Keywords
- skin optical properties, Monte Carlo simulation, photon density, skin layers, spectral properties, human skin
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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