Imaging skin with polarized light

S. L. Jacques; J. C. Ramella-Roman; K. Lee

Imaging skin with polarized light

S. L. Jacques, J. C. Ramella-Roman, K. Lee

Biomedical Engineering

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Abstract

Pathology in skin often occurs in the superficial layers of the epidermis and invades the papillary dermis. Imaging with linearly polarized light allows selection of photons that have reflected from these superficial tissue layers and rejection of photons that have penetrated deeply into the reticular dermis. Consequently, the image contrast is concentrated in the superficial tissue layers where pathology arises and invasion occurs.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2314-2315
Number of pages	2
Journal	Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
Volume	3
State	Published - 2002
Event	Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 24th Annual Conference and the 2002 Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES / EMBS) - Houston, TX, United States Duration: Oct 23 2002 → Oct 26 2002

Keywords

Polarized light
Skin cancer
Tissue optics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Signal Processing
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Health Informatics

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Imaging skin with polarized light

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