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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2018
I Love MY Body Research S.r.l., Milan, IT;
Luca Dobetti, Trieste, IT;
I LOVE MY BODY RESEARCH S.R.L., Milan, IT;
Abstract
A method of hair analysis based on microscope pictures of the hair in polarized light includes a hair conditioning phase performed in a container made of polyethylene or a polymer being in a position lower than polyethylene in the triboelectric series; this is followed by a hair testing phase in which polarized light microscope images of the hair, contacted with a turpentine oil, are taken and further processed using unmixing to obtain information on the amount of analytes present in the hair. Advantageously the present method shows high accuracy even in presence of accidental movements applied to the microscope/sample to be analyzed, such as possibly occurring during daily laboratory practice. Also advantageously, the high accuracy is maintained when different operators are involved in the procedure, being thus substantially unaffected by different ways of manipulating/preparing/photographing the hair sample.