Ann Dermatol.  2019 Jun;31(3):349-352. 10.5021/ad.2019.31.3.349.

Regional Variation of Human Skin Surface Temperature

• Lee CM
• Jin SP
• Doh EJ
• Lee DH
• Chung JH

• KMID: 2444874
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5021/ad.2019.31.3.349

Abstract

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MeSH Terms

Humans*
Skin*

Figure

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  Fig. 1 (A) Schematic diagram of the regions that measured skin surface temperature (SST). As a whole, a total of 15 regions were measured. In the face, 8 regions were measured. And another 7 regions were the anterior neck, palm, forearm, upper arm, sole, shin, and thigh. Except for forehead, nose tip, and chin, both sides of each region were measured. (B) Heat map and hierarchical clustering of SST. Participants maintained a supine position and the temperature was recorded if it remained stable for more than 5 seconds. The color refers to SST. The lowest temperature was depicted as blue, and the highest as red (26℃~36℃). Hierarchical clustering was performed using the “Manhattan distance” metric. All participants were represented on the x-axis (1~30), and body regions on the right (Rt.) y-axis. The left (Lt.) y-axis depicts hierarchical clustering. The top left figures show the mean distance between the regions in hierarchical clustering. (C) SST of the regions were depicted as different colors for quick reference. (D) The SST according to regions. The graphs show the average temperature and standard deviation.

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