New Book: "Imaging in Dermatology"

"Imaging in Dermatology" edited by Drs Michael R.Hamblin, Pinar Avci and Gaurav K.Gupta (ISBN: 978-0-12-802838-4) is a 2016 ELSEVIER publication that all the readers of this blog should be aware of.
I just ordered the book on Amazon for $120, and I can't wait to ready it and perhaps interview the authors (stay tuned). Congrats to the all the contributing Authors, Editors and ELSEVIER for their interest and work on the topic.

The table of content is rich and comprehensive (see Preview on Google Books here): 

2. Role of Clinical Photography in Dermatology

3. Dermoscopy

4. Trichoscopy: the Dermatologist's Third Eye

5. Dermatoscopy Correlates of Nail Appartus Disease

6. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) for Skin Cancer and Actinic Keratosis

7. OCT of Skin Scarring and Fibrosis

8. Polarization Speckles and Skin Applications

9. New Developments in Fluorescence Diagnostics

10. Ex-vivo Fluorescence Microscopy: Clinical Applications

11. Coherent Raman Scattering Microscopy in Dermatological Imaging

12.  Rapid Real-time Raman Spectroscopy and Imaging-Guided Confocal Raman Spectroscopy

13. Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Intradermal Measurements

14. Broadband Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering

15. In-Vivo Reflectance Confocal Microscopy (in Dematology)

16. Hyperspectral and Multispectral Imaging in Dermatology

17. Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy and Imaging

18. Spectral Imaging  in Dermatology

19. Applications of MultiPhoton Microscopy in Dermatology

20. Non-linear Microscopy in Clinical Dermatology

21. Confocal Reflectance Microscopy and Polarized Light Imaging

22. Polarization optical Imaging of Skin Pathology and Ageing

23. Surface Acoustic Waves

24. Photoacoustic Tomography in the diagnosis of Melanoma

25. Ultrasound imaging in Dermatology

26. Optoacoustic Imaging of Skin

27. Total Body Photography and serial Digital Dermoscopy

28.  Functional MRI behind the processing of itch (note: "?? WTH?")

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30. Thermal Imaging in Dermatology

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34. Imaging in Merkel Cell Carcinoma

35. Imaging Evaluation of Cutaneous Lymphoma using Functional and Structural Imaging

36. Imaging Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck

37. Imaging Patterns of Metastatic Melanoma

38. From Image to information: image Processing in dermatology and Cutaneous Biology.

(Good luck to the Google search engine to index my blog!!  will this create more traffic?)

"SKINSPECTION" – Hybrid Imaging for Skin Diagnosis

The "SKINSPECTION" approach combines two-photon imaging with time-correlated single photon detection, autofluorescence lifetime imaging, high-frequency ultrasound and optoacoustic imaging. 

The innovative combination of these modalities allows to obtain a wide-field view with quantitative depth information of skin lesions and a close-look into particular intra-tissue compartments with quantitative hyperspectral information and subcellular resolution. The goal of the project is to provide a novel unique tool for early diagnosis and treatment control of skin cancer and skin disease. For achieving this objective, two systems for microscopic and macroscopic imaging of lesions were developed in the last 3 years by the partners JenLab GmbH and Imperial College London (two-photon microscopy/FLIM) and Fraunhofer IBMT (Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering) and kibero GmbH (optoacoustic/ultrasound imaging). 

The systems were successfully certified for clinical studies and are currently being evaluated for imaging of skin lesions in a bicentric clinical trial at Hammersmith Hospital and Universita di Modena.

Check for the full research project description on the Europe FP7 webportal.