Simultaneous measurement of the sweating dynamics of a few tens of eccrine sweat glands by optical coherence tomography

Masato Ohmi; Yuki Wada

doi:10.1117/12.2001785

20 March 2013 Simultaneous measurement of the sweating dynamics of a few tens of eccrine sweat glands by optical coherence tomography

Masato Ohmi, Yuki Wada

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Proceedings Volume 8571, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XVII; 85712N (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2001785
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We demonstrate the dynamic OCT analysis of mental sweating of a few tens of eccrine sweat glands on a human fingertip. We propose a novel method for evaluation of the amount of excess sweat in response to mental stress, where the en-face OCT images of the spiral lumen of the eccrine sweat gland are constructed by data acquisition of the 128 B-mode OCT images. The dynamic analysis of mental sweating is performed by the time-sequential piled-up en-face OCT images with the frame spacing of 3.3 sec. Strong non-uniformity is observed in mental sweating where the amount of excess sweat in response to sound stress and physical stress is different for each sweat gland.

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Masato Ohmi and Yuki Wada "Simultaneous measurement of the sweating dynamics of a few tens of eccrine sweat glands by optical coherence tomography", Proc. SPIE 8571, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XVII, 85712N (20 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2001785

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