What is it about?
The open photoacoustic cell technique (OPC) is applied for measuring the thermal diffusivity (of human nail tips. Through the OPC measurement the average value of the thermal diffusivity for the human nail was found 8.9 x 10^-4 cm^2/s being compatible with values normally found for other similar human tissue and polymer like materials.
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Why is it important?
Diagnosis and therapy with topic application of anti-fungal creams could be monitored since thermal properties are known.
Perspectives
I believe the value found here, when tabulated may be used for any drugs delivery studies that need the heat propagation to be know, mainly for depth profiling purposes.
Professor Daniele T Dias
Federal University of Technology - Paraná
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This page is a summary of: Human nail thermal diffusivity obtained using the open photoacoustic cell technique, Journal de Physique IV (Proceedings), June 2005, EDP Sciences,
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:2005125150.
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