This optical image shows the cuticle surface of a single human hair fibre, acquired non-destructively with a Keyence VK-X3000 laser-scanning confocal microscope. The scale bar shown in the image indicates absolute dimensions and remains valid independent of how the image is displayed or resized. Because the specimen is measured without sectioning, staining, or consumption, it is preserved intact and can be measured again — a condition the LSHI framework requires so that a specimen remains available as a physical reference.

Specimen record

• Imaging modality: optical image (laser-scanning confocal microscope)

• Instrument: Keyence VK-X3000

• Nominal magnification: 3,600× (refer to the in-image scale bar for absolute dimensions)

• Scale bar: present

• Sourcing location: Western Europe

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Sourcing location denotes where Lux Symbolica acquired the specimen. It is recorded as acquisition provenance, not as a claim about the donor's ancestry or origin; under the LSHI® framework each specimen is described by measurement, and location is not treated as predictive of the measured properties.

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Part of the Lux Symbolica measurement-based hair reference. Return to Hair Database & Laboratory Supply →