[11a-PA3-1~9] 3.4 Biomedical optics

[11a-PA3-4] Numerical simulation of reflection absorbance spectra from human skin in a near-infrared range

Kazuaki Okada¹, Yuta Kobori¹, Teru Kuwahara¹, Tomonori Yuasa¹, Kazuya Ohtani², Hiroaki Iwashita², Yukio Yamada³, 〇Yoshihisa Aizu¹ (1.Muroran Inst. Tech., 2.TOKAI RIKA, 3.Univ. Electro-Comm.)

Keywords:human skin, absorbance spectra, Monte Carlo method

This paper reports the framework for simulating reflection absorbance spectra from human skin in a near-infrared range by Monte Carlo method. We found the main factor which affects the absorbance by comparing simulated spectrum with the spectrum measured with the FT-IR type spectrophotometer.