PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an AGEs(Advanced Glycation End products) measurement device which is compact, inexpensive, excellent in operability, and simple by directly converting fluorescent emission resulting from the AGEs from the skin of a person by the excitation rays of light from an LED light emission section into an electric signal by a light reception section without using any conventional optical or indirect optical transmission means.SOLUTION: A measurement head 1 of a measurement device is configured in a small and compact shape so as to be gripped with the hand of a person, and an LED light emission section 12 which concentrically emits irradiation rays of light as a light emission section and a base integration type spectral photometer element 15 as a light reception section 14 are consolidated and internally mounted on the measurement head 1. Fluorescent emission resulting from AGEs from the skin is directly converted into an electric signal by the spectral photometer element of the light reception section 14 so as to be detected.COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】LED発光部からの励起光による人の皮膚からのAGEs(糖化最終生成物質)由来の蛍光発光を、従来のような光学的もしくは間接的な光学伝達手段を介することなく、直接的に受光部において電気信号に変換して測定するようにし、小型で安価で操作性に優れた、簡便なAGEs測定装置を提供する。【解決手段】測定装置の測定ヘッド1の形状を人の手で握れるように小型コンパクトな形状にするとともに、測定ヘッド1には発光部として一点集中的に照射光を発するLED発光部12と、受光部14としての基盤一体型の分光光度計素子15とを集約して内装してなり、皮膚からのAGEs由来の蛍光発光を、受光部14の分光光度計素子にて直接的に電気信号に変換して検出可能に構成している。【選択図】図4
