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The past, present, and prospective on UV–VIS–NIR skin photonics and spectroscopy—a wavelength guide

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The study and applications of in vivo skin optics have been openly documented as early as the year 1954, or possibly earlier. To date, challenges in analyzing the complexities of this field remain, with wide scopes requiring more scrutiny. Recent advances in spectroscopic research and multivariate analytics allow a closer look into applications potentially for detecting or monitoring diseases. One of the challenges in this field is in establishing a reference for applications which correspond to certain bandwidths. This article reviews the scope on past research on skin spectroscopy, and the clinical aspects which have or may have applications on disease detection or enhancing diagnostics. A summary is supplied on the technicalities surrounding the measurements reported in literature, focused towards the wavelength-dependent applications in themes central to the respective research. Analytics on the topology of the papers’ data cited in this work is also provided for a statistical perspective. In short, this paper strives to immediately inform the reader with possible applications via the spectroscopic devices at hand.

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    Abdul Halim Poh, F. R. M. Adikan & Mahmoud Moghavvemi

  2. Integrated Lightwave Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Poh, A.H., Adikan, F.R.M. & Moghavvemi, M. The past, present, and prospective on UV–VIS–NIR skin photonics and spectroscopy—a wavelength guide. Med Biol Eng Comput 58, 1159–1175 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-019-02077-9

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