Skin biopsies were obtained from a total of 16 patients at the University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California Hansen’s Clinic, while an additional 3 samples were obtained from the University of Michigan. Informed written consent was obtained from human subjects under a...
Confocal microscopy is the closest modality to the clinic. In fact, commercial systems that include confocal microscopes are already widely used at the patient's bedside for the lateral margin detection of skin cancers, especially for BCC extraction surgery. There are other techniques that still may...