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OCT in Dermatology

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Optical Coherence Tomography

Abstract

OCT is increasingly interesting for non-invasive skin imaging in Dermatology. Due to its resolution and imaging depth, OCT is already routinely established for diagnosis of nonmelanoma skin cancer, whereas for pigmented lesions, the resolution is still not high enough. OCT has also a high value for monitoring of treatment effects, for example to control healing after non-surgical topical treatment of basal cell carcinomas. In summary, there are several indications for applications of OCT to image skin diseases, and its importance will grow in the future due to further technical developments like speckle variance OCT.

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    John Holmes

  2. Klinikum Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

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The author Jon Holmes is an employee of Michelson Diagnostics Ltd., a commercial manufacturer of dermatological OCT instruments for scientific and clinical applications.

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Holmes, J., Welzel, J. (2015). OCT in Dermatology. In: Drexler, W., Fujimoto, J. (eds) Optical Coherence Tomography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06419-2_75

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