Qualitative Investigation of Fresh Human Scalp Hair with Full-Field Optical Coherence Tomography

    January 2012 in “ Journal of biomedical optics ”
    Woo June Choi, Longquan Pi, Gihyeon Min … Byeong Ha Lee
    Studysummary This study used ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography to observe hair shaft structures, finding melanin granules absent only in white hair, which may explain color differences between black and white hair.
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