Abstract
The skin’s electrical nonlinearities found experimentally arerelated to stratum corneum and modeled by the parallel resistance (Rp) as a linear current dependence in conductance (1/Rp). We show that such dependence could occur because the skin’s current-voltage characteristic has a non-ohmic linear portion at large voltage, due to pores’ conduction, that can be detected as a constant dynamic resistance (dU/dI).
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Bîrlea, N.M., Bîrlea, S.I., Culea, E. (2017). How to Describe the Skin’s Electrical Nonlinear Response. In: Vlad, S., Roman, N. (eds) International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology; 12th - 15th October 2016, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 59. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52875-5_26
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