Measuring wrinkles, sun damage with software
By Stefanie Olsen
Story last modified Wed Jan 18 04:00:00 PST 2006
SAN JOSE, Calif.--I never thought I could say definitively that 7 percent of my face is wrinkled, 30 percent of my pores are inflamed and on a scale of 50, my California sun-soaked skin scores 26 for ultraviolet damage.
I tested, firsthand, emerging bioscience technology that applies hard numbers to my skin's health. With two flashes of white-light digital imaging to my face and some sophisticated mathematical algorithms, the system I subjected myself to could calculate all that frightening detail in a few minutes.
Clarity Pro skin technology
This thing will either be youth-obsessed America's godsend or nightmare, I can't decide.
Apart from numbers, the technology, called Clarity Pro, can depict the depth and severity of wrinkles in a 3D chart, show the extent of bacteria-filled pores in a graph, or represent UV damage in purple dots scattered about your face in a white-light image. It can also calculate how long a person can be exposed to the sun, in minutes or hours a day, before incurring more UV damage.
When patents are finalized in the next year, the technology will also be able to forecast a patient's likelihood for skin cancer as a consequence of UV sun damage, according to Raj Chhibber, CEO and founder of BrighTex Bio-Photonics, the Silicon Valley-based maker of Clarity Pro.
"Diagnostics are key to assessing your health. Early intervention can solve a lot of problems," said Chhibber, a physicist by trade.
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