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High Precision Measurement of TEWL and Beyond Tewameter ® TM Hex by C+K

25 March 2020

The worldwide acknowledged open chamber measurement method of the Tewameter® has reached a new level:

  • Thirty pairs of sensors giving 15 times more information than the previous two pairs: the probe acts like a camera to detect temperature & humidity distribution  
  • High amount of data for each single measurement supplying extremely accuratereproducible and quick results for the first time for skin and ambience above the probe

Explore new exciting parameters:

  • Local skin energy balance: for the first time it is possible to separately measure the transepidermal heat loss by heat diffusion from the body and evaporation cooling through water vapor.
  • Water vapor concentration: the actual drive of TEWL (skin and ambience)
  • Relative Humidity of skin and ambience

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Published by COSSMA, 18 March 2020