Publications by authors named "Tomoyuki Kawasoe"
Background: There is a need to develop a new device to evaluate and monitor the condition of human skin and make it possible to measure the skin in the diary because the current accuracy of water content measurement in the stratum corneum by capacitance and conductance measurement sensor that are used as the gold standard is insufficient.
Materials And Methods: The electrostatic sensor is composed of a thin silicone gum sheet and a copper film. In the experiment, skin conditions on six positions such as the forearm, upper arm, and face of a test subject before and after tape stripping are measured by the electrostatic sensor and a commercial sensor.
Background/aims: Few attempts have been made to distinguish the softness of different skin layers, though specific measurement of the superficial layer would be useful for evaluating the emollient effect of cosmetics and for diagnosis of skin diseases.
Materials And Methods: We developed a sensor probe consisting of a piezoelectric tactile sensor and a load cell. To evaluate it, we firstly measured silicone rubber samples with different softness.