Protective effects of various types of clothes against UV radiation.
The UV protection factors of twenty commonly used textiles were determined. Protection factors varied between 1.3 and 1700, which shows the importance of giving careful advice to light-sensitive and psoralensensitized patients, regarding suitable clothes.
D003020:Clothing; D011835:Radiation Protection; D013784:Textiles; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays