OCT imaging of skin cancer and other dermatological diseases

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides clinicians and researchers with micrometer-resolution, in vivo, cross-sectional images of human skin up to several millimeter depth. This review of OCT imaging applied within dermatology covers the application of OCT to normal skin, and reports on a large number of applications in the fields of non-melanoma skin cancer, malignant melanomas, psoriasis and dermatitis. infestations, bullous skin diseases, tattoos, nails, haemangiomas, and other skin diseases. [GRAPHICS] Characteristic BCC nests in an FIE-stained histopathology section of the skin. (C) 2009 by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim