TITLE:
Dynamic Analysis of Mental Sweating by the Time-Sequential Piled-Up En-Face OCT Images
AUTHORS:
Masato Ohmi, Yuki Wada, Motomu Tanigawa
KEYWORDS:
Optical Coherence Tomography; En-Face OCT Images; Mental Sweating; Sweat Gland; Sympathetic Nerve
JOURNAL NAME:
Optics and Photonics Journal,
Vol.3 No.7A,
November
27,
2013
ABSTRACT:
In this paper, the dynamic analysis of mental sweating
for sound stimulus of a few tens of eccrine sweat glands is performed by the
time-sequential piled-up en-face optical coherence tomography (OCT) images with
the frame spacing of 3.3 sec. In the experiment, the amount of excess sweat can
be evaluated simultaneously for a few tens of sweat glands by piling up of all
the en-face OCT images. Strong non-uniformity is observed in mental sweating
where the amount of sweat in response to sound stimulus is different for each
sweat gland. Furthermore, the amount of sweat is significantly increased in
proportion to the strength of the stimulus.