Huafeng Ding et al 2006 Phys. Med. Biol. 51 1479 doi:10.1088/0031-9155/51/6/008
Huafeng Ding1, Jun Q Lu1, William A Wooden2, Peter J Kragel3 and Xin-Hua Hu1
Show affiliationsThe 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.
Issue 6 (21 March 2006)
Received 7 September 2005, in final form 3 January 2006
Published 1 March 2006
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