Optical property of human skin

Luisiana X. Cundin; William P. Roach; Gerald Wilmink

doi:10.1117/12.805582

24 February 2009 Optical property of human skin

Luisiana X. Cundin, William P. Roach, Gerald Wilmink

Proceedings Volume 7175, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XX; 717517 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805582
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The optical property of biological skin is reconstructed from published experimental absorption data. A smooth chart of all relevant data is formed by splicing, interpolation and extrapolation methods. The regularized set of absorption data is transformed through Kramers-Krönig relations to yield a set of theoretical index of refraction for biological skin. The well known absorption characteristics of pure liquid water provide supplemental information for missing data. The Kramers-Krönig transformation is numerically realized through Discrete Fourier Transforms and enables the use of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm. A unique implementation of Richardson's extrapolation method reduced multivalued point sets containing experimental absorption data. Extrapolation techniques also aided in covering unavoidable gaps in experimental data.

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Luisiana X. Cundin, William P. Roach, and Gerald Wilmink "Optical property of human skin", Proc. SPIE 7175, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XX, 717517 (24 February 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805582

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