Relationship between Transparent Skin Tissue Image Shading and Skin Tissue Light Scattering Intensity

Abstract

To obtain a fingerprint pattern without being affected by protrusions and indentations on the skin surface is important for fingerprint identification. In our previous work, we discovered a fine structure corresponding to the fingerprint pattern in the stratum corneum and surrounding area from observation of OCT images, and developed a method which detects the light from the light source goes through a fine structure and create grayscale images corresponding to a fingerprint pattern. In this paper, to clarify the origins of the greyscale image, we propose a simple simulated model of the fine structure of different light scattering properties alternately arranged in the epidermis of finger skin. We calculated the light intensity distribution via a Monte Carlo simulation of light scattering with two parameter sets at 640 nm. We found that the light passing through this model created a greyscale image that corresponded to the epidermis structure.