Skin color measurements: comparison between three instruments: the Chromameter®, the DermaSpectrometer® and the Mexameter®

Background/aims: Two types of skin reflectance instruments are available nowadays for the determination of skin color: a tristumulus colorimeter (Chromameter from Minolta) using the CIE L*a*b* color system and the narrow‐band simple reflectance meters (DermaSpectrometer from Cortex and Mexameter from Courage‐Khazaka) using the erythema/melanin indices. The purpose of this study was to compare the capabilities of the three instruments (sensitivity, repeatability and correlation) in vitro and in vivo.

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