Technology
Instant Optical Biopsy
The VivaScope technology (in vivo) allows for a real-time and non-invasive Instant Optical Biopsy from the epidermis to the upper dermis. With the VivaScope confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) the cell morphology of the skin layers are displayed in high resolution.
New ways to see skin. New possibilities. See the different layers.
In vivo examinations with the VivaScope technology using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) allow for an optical biopsy using a non-invasive procedure. Cellular microstructures of skin can thereby be depicted cell by cell in clearly defined horizontal “optical cross-sections” with a thickness of less than 5.0 μm.
Look into the skin of your patients.
Examining with the VivaScope technology means both, sparing patients from painful and potentially unnecessary removal of tissue and long waiting time for the result of an examination. The examination opens a “window into the skin” without causing pain or damaging it.
All images courtesy of Prof. Dr Elke Sattler, Dr Martina Ulrich, Prof. Dr Julia Welzel
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Image courtesy of Prof. Giovanni Pellacani MD, PhD, La Sapienza University in Rom
Image courtesy of Prof. Giovanni Pellacani MD, PhD, La Sapienza University in Rom
Layer by layer.
In Vivo examinations using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) allow for an optical biopsy and noninvasive procedure. Cellular microstructures of skin
can thereby be depicted cell by cell in clearly defined horizontal “optical cross-sections” with a thickness of less than 5.0 μm.
can thereby be depicted cell by cell in clearly defined horizontal “optical cross-sections” with a thickness of less than 5.0 μm.
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