title: Protective effects of various types of clothes against UV radiation.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D003020:Clothing; D011835:Radiation Protection; D013784:Textiles; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays