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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020

The Reflectance of Human Skin in the Millimeter-Wave Band.

Amani Yousef Owda, Neil Salmon, Alexander J Casson, Majdi Owda

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Amani Yousef OwdaDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, Sackville Street Building, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Neil SalmonDepartment of Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester Street, Manchester M1 5GD, UK.
Alexander J CassonDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, Sackville Street Building, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1408-1190
Majdi OwdaDepartment of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester Street, Manchester M1 5GD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7393-2381
Manchester Metropolitan University · GBUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The millimeter-wave band is an ideal part of the electromagnetic radiation to diagnose human skin conditions because this radiation interacts only with tissue down to a depth of a millimetre or less over the band range from 30 GHz to 300 GHz. In this paper, radiometry is used as a non-contact sensor for measuring the human skin reflectance under normal and wet skin conditions. The mean reflectance of the skin of a sample of 50 healthy participants over the (80-100) GHz band was found to be ~0.615 with a standard deviation of ~0.088, and an experimental measurement uncertainty of ±0.005. The thinner skin regions of the back of the hand, the volar forearms and the inner wrist had reflectances 0.068, 0.068 and 0.062 higher than the thicker skin regions of the palm of the hand, the dorsal forearm and the outer wrist skin. Experimental measurements of human skin reflectance in a normal and a wet state on the back of the hand and the palm of the hand regions indicated that the mean differences in the reflectance before and after the application of water were ~0.078 and ~0.152, respectively. These differences were found to be statistically significant as assessed using

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Electromagnetic RadiationSkinSkin Physiological PhenomenaAdultEquipment DesignFemaleHumansMaleRadiometrySkin DiseasesUpper ExtremityWaterWaterdisordersmillimeter waveradiometryreflectanceskin diseases

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PMID32182667
PMCPMC7085580
OpenAlexW3009172657

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