Precise measurement of instantaneous volume of eccrine sweat gland in mental sweating by optical coherence tomography

Yoshihiko Sugawa; Akihiro Fukuda; Masato Ohmi

doi:10.1117/12.2076865

2 March 2015 Precise measurement of instantaneous volume of eccrine sweat gland in mental sweating by optical coherence tomography

Yoshihiko Sugawa, Akihiro Fukuda, Masato Ohmi

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Proceedings Volume 9312, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XIX; 931235 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2076865
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We have demonstrated dynamic analysis of the physiological function of eccrine sweat glands underneath skin surface by optical coherence tomography (OCT). We propose a method for extraction of the target eccrine sweat gland by use of the connected component extraction process and the adaptive threshold method, where the en-face OCT images are constructed by the SS-OCT. Furthermore, we demonstrate precise measurement of instantaneous volume of the sweat gland in response to the external stimulus. The dynamic change of instantaneous volume of eccrine sweat gland in mental sweating is performed by this method during the period of 300 sec with the frame intervals of 3.23 sec.

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Yoshihiko Sugawa, Akihiro Fukuda, and Masato Ohmi "Precise measurement of instantaneous volume of eccrine sweat gland in mental sweating by optical coherence tomography", Proc. SPIE 9312, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XIX, 931235 (2 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2076865

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