title: [Development of a calibrating control unit for a grating monochromator and its clinical application].
abstract: For precise measurements of minimal erythema dose (MED) in photosensitive dermatoses, a calibrating control unit was developed for a grating monochromator. Seasonal and sexual differences of wavelength-specific MED and the effects of different half-value wave-width for each wavelength were determined in 64 healthy adults. Wavelength-specific MED was studied using the apparatus in 19 patients with photosensitive dermatoses, including 2 patients with xeroderma pigmentosum, 2 patients with polymorphous light eruption, one patients with actin reticuloid, 2 patients with drug-induced photosensitive dermatitis and 2 patients with hydroa vacciniforme.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Uwajima City Hospital, Ehime University Medical School.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Makino
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002138:Calibration; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D004890:Erythema; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010787:Photosensitivity Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D013053:Spectrophotometry / Q000295:instrumentation*