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J Appl Physiol 18: 1285-1288, 1963;
8750-7587/63 $5.00
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The photodermoplanimeter

E. C. Halliday 1 and T. J. Hugo 1

1 National Physical Research Laboratory, South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa

A description is given of an instrument which measures the radiation area of the human body. An isotropic flux of light is produced in a large integrating vessel and when a human subject whose skin has been suitably blackened enters the vessel, the light intensity at a window in the wall of the vessel is decreased. A photometric measurement of this decrease enables the effective area of the surface of the skin of the subject to be measured with an accuracy of better than 1%. The instrument enables measurements to be made on large numbers of subjects rapidly and reliably.

human body surface; radiation area; photometric measurement

Submitted on April 5, 1963






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