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To address this shortcoming, we used pulsed photothermal radiometry (PPTR) for depth profiling of bruises with two wavelengths, 532 nm (KTP laser) and 1064 nm (Nd:YAG laser). Six volunteers with eight bruises of exactly known and documented times of injury were enrolled in the study. A homogeneous part of the bruise was irradiated first with a 5 ms pulse at 532 nm and then with a 5 ms pulse at 1064 nm. The resulting transient surface temperature change was collected with a fast IR camera. The initial temperature\u2013depth profiles were reconstructed by solving the ill-posed inverse problem using a custom reconstruction algorithm. The PPTR signals and reconstructed initial temperature profiles showed that the 532 nm wavelength probed the shallow skin layers revealing moderate changes during bruise development, while the 1064 nm wavelength provided additional information for severe bruises, in which swelling was present. 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