The Konyak Nagas and Ao have separate cultural histories that are woven into their daily lives. Tattoos deeply ingrained in both societies, acting as important symbols of personal identity history. This research is an attempt to understanding the tattooing process's philosophy motivations, well a deep dive tattoo artist's methods procedure. Tattooing more than just adornment many cultures; it p...

INTRODUCTION In the last years there have been increasing reports of adverse cutaneous reactions to temporary black henna tattoos. Black henna does not exist naturally, it is obtained from original henna after the addition of other compounds, among them paraphenylenediamine (PPD), that darken it and facilitate the process of tattoing. Paraphenylenediamine is an aromatic compound that presents c...

This research aims to identify any recurrent psychopathological profiles in individuals who abuse tattoos and that, for this reason, the tattoo itself could be manifestation of a specific symptom.

Text tattoos contain rich information about an individual for forensic investigation. To extract this information, text tattoo localisation is the first and essential step. Previous studies applied existing object detectors to detect general tattoos, but none of them considered they neglect prior knowledge that are usually inside or nearby larger appear only on human skin. use knowledge, a know...

CASE REPORT A 66-year-old female underwent a colonoscopy for evaluation of diarrhea. Two polyps were seen (10 mm and 20 mm) in the ascending colon. Due to poor preparation in the right colon, a polypectomy was not pursued. Because the lesions were hard to identify, 2 tattoos were placed 3 cm distal to each polyp. It was discovered that instead of Endomark (PMT Corporation, Chanhassen, MN), undi...

The goal of this research is to use the information contained in the mechanisms occurring during the laser tattoo removal process. We simultaneously employed a laser-beam deflection probe (LBDP) to measure the shock wave and a camera to detect the plasma radiation, both originating from a high-intensity laser-pulse interaction with a tattoo. The experiments were performed in vitro (skin phantom...