Optical properties of skin

Yixiong Su; Wenbo Wang; Kexin Xu; Chengzhi Jiang

doi:10.1117/12.482974

12 September 2002 Optical properties of skin

Yixiong Su, Wenbo Wang, Kexin Xu, Chengzhi Jiang

Proceedings Volume 4916, Optics in Health Care and Biomedical Optics: Diagnostics and Treatment; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.482974
Event: Photonics Asia, 2002, Shanghai, China

Abstract

This paper describes the light intensity and polarization characteristics of the regular reflectance and the backscattered light, which were generated by putting the linear polarized light into the surface of skin. We come to the following conclusions: (1) when incidence light is linear polarized light, its regular reflectance is polarized light with the same polarization state of the incident light, while the backscattered light will lose almost all its polarization; (2) when the incidence light, whose optical vector's direction is parallel with the incidence plane, enters the skin with the Brewster's angle, the regular reflectance almost vanishes. At the same time, receive the light energy where the regular reflectance occurs. The backscattered light, which enters the tissue, covers 97% ofthe received total energy.

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Yixiong Su, Wenbo Wang, Kexin Xu, and Chengzhi Jiang "Optical properties of skin", Proc. SPIE 4916, Optics in Health Care and Biomedical Optics: Diagnostics and Treatment, (12 September 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.482974

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