Smit, Jacoba EGrobler, AFSparrow, RW2011-01-112011-01-112011-01Smit, JE, Grobler, AF and Sparrow, RW. 2010. Influence of variation in eumelanin content on absorbance spectra of liquid skin-like phantoms. Photochemistry and Photobiology, Vol. 87(1), pp 64-710031-8655http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21073475http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4755Copyright: 2011 Wiley Blackwell. This is the pre print version of the work. The definitive version is published in Photochemistry and Photobiology, Vol. 87(1), pp 64-71The attenuation behaviour of two different types of skin-like phantoms representing the range of Skin Types I to VI were investigated and compared to real human skin. Intralipid and PheroidTM artificial lipid membrane vesicles respectively were added to synthetic eumelanin concentrations ranging from 0.0044 to 0.13 mg/mL to produce skin-like phantoms. Spectrophotometric absorbance and transmittance measurements were performed. Results predicted some of the non-monotonic trends observed in real human skin, albeit shifted more towards the visible wavelength range. There exist however an underlying difference in interaction between the melanin and the PheroidTM and Intralipid skin-like phantomsenPhantomsSkin-like phantomsEumelaninSpectrophotometric absorbanceArticleSmit, J. E., Grobler, A., & Sparrow, R. (2011). Influence of variation in eumelanin content on absorbance spectra of liquid skin-like phantoms. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4755Smit, Jacoba E, AF Grobler, and RW Sparrow "Influence of variation in eumelanin content on absorbance spectra of liquid skin-like phantoms." (2011) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4755Smit JE, Grobler A, Sparrow R. Influence of variation in eumelanin content on absorbance spectra of liquid skin-like phantoms. 2011; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4755.TY - Article AU - Smit, Jacoba E AU - Grobler, AF AU - Sparrow, RW AB - The attenuation behaviour of two different types of skin-like phantoms representing the range of Skin Types I to VI were investigated and compared to real human skin. Intralipid and PheroidTM artificial lipid membrane vesicles respectively were added to synthetic eumelanin concentrations ranging from 0.0044 to 0.13 mg/mL to produce skin-like phantoms. Spectrophotometric absorbance and transmittance measurements were performed. Results predicted some of the non-monotonic trends observed in real human skin, albeit shifted more towards the visible wavelength range. There exist however an underlying difference in interaction between the melanin and the PheroidTM and Intralipid skin-like phantoms DA - 2011-01 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Phantoms KW - Skin-like phantoms KW - Eumelanin KW - Spectrophotometric absorbance LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2011 SM - 0031-8655 T1 - Influence of variation in eumelanin content on absorbance spectra of liquid skin-like phantoms TI - Influence of variation in eumelanin content on absorbance spectra of liquid skin-like phantoms UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4755 ER -