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A non-invasive ATR-FTIR technique has been used to directly measure skin conditions in vivo. From outside to inside, stratum corneum (SC) consists of fatty layer, one cell layer, a thick layer of lipid and another 10-20 layers of cells. Previous publications [1, 2] have reported the combination of ATR-FTIR with a skinstripping technique to study human skin in vivo. In this paper, the subtle difference of penetration depth obtained in human skin by using different ATR crystals is discussed. With a Ge crystal (45°), only an α-helix protein band was observed in the ATR-FTIR spectrum, which indicated the penetration of light into the one-cell layer of the stratum corneum, because proteins in the cells are in α-helix form. In contrast, with a ZnSe crystal (45°), both α- and β-helix protein bands were observed in the FTIR spectrum, which indicated that IR light penetrates into the lipid layer, because the floating lipid contains β-helix form proteins.
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Snieder, M., Hansen, W.G. (1997). Crystal Effect on Penetration Depth in Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier-transform Infrared Study of Human Skin. In: Mink, J., Keresztury, G., Kellner, R. (eds) Progress in Fourier Transform Spectroscopy. Mikrochimica Acta Supplement, vol 14. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6840-0_175
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