SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LIVING OR RECONSTITUTED TISSUES, IN PARTICULAR CUTANEOUS APPENDAGES, OR STRUCTURES ASSOCIATED THEREWITH

摘要

A system is described for characterizing living or reconstituted tissues, in particular cutaneous appendages such as nails and the like or structures associated therewith, comprising: - a plurality of supports (12a- 12c) for a cutaneous appendage (N) under test, each of which is adapted to form at least one point of support of the cutaneous appendage (N) when this is subjected to application of a predetermined characterizing force; an image acquisition device (20) of the cutaneous appendage (N) under test, adapted to acquire a plurality of successive images over time representative of the geometric configuration of the cutaneous appendage (N); and a processing unit (30) coupled to the image acquisition device (20) and adapted to correlate the acquired images representative of the geometric configuration of the cutaneous appendage (N) with the characterizing forces applied.