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ArticleProceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering2016

Dermoscopy-guided reflectance confocal microscopy of skin using high-NA objective lens with integrated wide-field color camera.

David L Dickensheets, Seth Kreitinger, Gary Peterson, Michael Heger, Milind Rajadhyaksha

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Article in Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

David L DickensheetsElectrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717.
Seth KreitingerElectrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717.
Gary PetersonDermatology Department, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Michael HegerElectrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717.
Milind RajadhyakshaDermatology Department, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Montana State University · USMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Integrated wide-field imaging and confocal microscopy with agile 3D beam scanningR21EB018507 · NIBIB · MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY - BOZEMAN · PI DICKENSHEETS, DAVID LEE, RAJADHYAKSHA, MILIND · 2014 to 2015
$421k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB018507
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reflectance Confocal Microscopy, or RCM, is being increasingly used to guide diagnosis of skin lesions. The combination of widefield dermoscopy (WFD) with RCM is highly sensitive (~90%) and specific (~ 90%) for noninvasively detecting melanocytic and non-melanocytic skin lesions. The combined WFD and RCM approach is being implemented on patients to triage lesions into benign (with no biopsy) versus suspicious (followed by biopsy and pathology). Currently, however, WFD and RCM imaging are performed with separate instruments, while using an adhesive ring attached to the skin to sequentially image the same region and co-register the images. The latest small handheld RCM instruments offer no provision yet for a co-registered wide-field image. This paper describes an innovative solution that integrates an ultra-miniature dermoscopy camera into the RCM objective lens, providing simultaneous wide-field color images of the skin surface and RCM images of the subsurface cellular structure. The objective lens (0.9 NA) includes a hyperhemisphere lens and an ultra-miniature CMOS color camera, commanding a 4 mm wide dermoscopy view of the skin surface. The camera obscures the central portion of the aperture of the objective lens, but the resulting annular aperture provides excellent RCM optical sectioning and resolution. Preliminary testing on healthy volunteers showed the feasibility of combined WFD and RCM imaging to concurrently show the skin surface in wide-field and the underlying microscopic cellular-level detail. The paper describes this unique integrated dermoscopic WFD/RCM lens, and shows representative images. The potential for dermoscopy-guided RCM for skin cancer diagnosis is discussed.

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DermoscopyReflectance Confocal Microscopy

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PMID28919662
PMCPMC5597433
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