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BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 500-513Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.6.000500
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Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2010CB327806]
- International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China [2010DFB13180]
- Medical Instruments and New Medicine Program of Suzhou [ZXY2012026]
- Foundation Research Project of Jiangsu Province [BK20130374]
- Internal Development Funding of General Photonics Corporation
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We present detailed measurement results of optical attenuation's thermal coefficients (referenced to the temperature of the skin surface) in different depth regions of in vivo human forearm skins using optical coherence tomography (OCT). We first design a temperature control module with an integrated optical probe to precisely control the surface temperature of a section of human skin. We propose a method of using the correlation map to identify regions in the skin having strong correlations with the surface temperature of the skin and find that the attenuation coefficient in these regions closely follows the variation of the surface temperature without any hysteresis. We observe a negative thermal coefficient of attenuation in the epidermis. While in dermis, the slope signs of the thermal coefficient of attenuation are different at different depth regions for a particular subject, however, the depth regions with a positive (or negative) slope are different in different subjects. We further find that the magnitude of the thermal coefficient of attenuation coefficient is greater in epidermis than in dermis. We believe the knowledge of such thermal properties of skins is important for several noninvasive diagnostic applications, such as OCT glucose monitoring, and the method demonstrated in this paper is effective in studying the optical and biological properties in different regions of skin. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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