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COMPARISON OF THE ERYTHEMOGENIC EFFECTIVENESS OF ULTRA VIOLET‐B (290‐320 nm) and ULTRA VIOLET‐A (320‐400 nm) RADIATION BY SKIN REFLECTANCE
Author(s) -
Wan San,
Jaenickeand KurtF.,
Parrish JohnA.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
photochemistry and photobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.818
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1751-1097
pISSN - 0031-8655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1983.tb04516.x
Subject(s) - erythema , ultra violet , irradiation , reflectivity , dermatology , fluence , radiation , materials science , chemistry , optics , optoelectronics , medicine , physics , nuclear physics
–Based on optical properties of the skin, its constituent layers and the blood, and a previously experimentally verified quantitative model for the optical transfer properties in skin, noninvasive determinations of the amount of cutaneous blood in the superficial plexus are made from skin reflectance. This method is used to determine UVA and UVB fluences that cause cutaneous blood in the superficial plexus to increase to 1.5, 2 and 2.5 times the pre‐radiation volume at various times after irradiation. Our results show that on an equal fluence basis, UVB is two to three thousand times as effective as UVA in inducing erythema, whether erythema is evaluated 8, 24 or 72 h after irradiation. This agrees with the result obtained in terms of minimal erythema dose by visual inspection.