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IN order to use infra-red scanners in medicine to detect small changes in skin temperature, a knowledge is needed of the variation of emissivity of the outer layers of the skin as a function of both temperature and wave-length1.
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ELAM, R., GOODWIN, D. & WILLIAMS, K. Optical Properties of the Human Epidermis. Nature 198, 1001–1002 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1981001a0
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