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Ex vivo porcine skin results for air immersion and mechanical compression. Errors are ±1 SD.
| Air immersion | Mechanical compression | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before | After | Before | After | |
| Thickness | 1700 ± 140 μm | 680 ± 220 μm | 1300 ± 100 μm | 540 ± 150 μm |
| Strain | — | −0.598 ± 0.096 | — | −0.585 ± 0.083 |
| Refractive index | 1.36 ± 0.02 | 1.49 ± 0.03 | 1.39 ± 0.02 | 1.5 ± 0.05 |
| Water volume fraction | 0.68 ± 0.09 | 0.35 ± 0.12 | 0.66 ± 0.02 | 0.20 ± 0.05 |
| Water weight fraction | 0.57 ± 0.01 | 0.37 ± 0.01 | — | — |
