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2019
19th International Congress of Metrology
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Article Number | 19001 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Biology - Health / Biologie-Santé | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/metrology/201919001 | |
Published online | 23 September 2019 |
Optical Phantom Development for Skin Measurement
1
National Metrology Centre, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
2
Clarins Laboratories, France
3
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore
* Corresponding e-mail address: zhang_jing@nmc.a-star.edu.sg
We have successfully developed and manufactured a three-layered scattering agent-embedded optical phantom in order to mimic the structural and optical properties of the human skin. Characterization is done for the optical phantom. The widths of the individual layers can be controlled within +/-10% of the designed thickness. The refractive indices, scattering and absorption coefficients are close to the human skin. The scattering agents in the optical phantom act as point sources which can be used to measure point spread function (PSF). Such a device can be useful for applications that require an accurate optical model for human skin evaluation such as Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Reflectance Confocal Microscopy (RCM) in cosmetics and dermatological diagnostics.
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