Transforming a clinical dermatascope into a dual-wavelength optical polarization imaging device for detecting skin cancer margins

Leonid Shmuylovich; Quinlan McGrath; Anmol Jarang; Michael Butler

doi:10.1117/12.2692740

13 March 2024 Transforming a clinical dermatascope into a dual-wavelength optical polarization imaging device for detecting skin cancer margins

Leonid Shmuylovich, Quinlan McGrath, Anmol Jarang, Michael Butler

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Proceedings Volume PC12816, Photonics in Dermatology and Plastic Surgery 2024; PC128160M (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2692740
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2024, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Nonmelanoma skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the US, and while Mohs microsurgery is curative in the majority of cases, inaccurate presurgical visual estimation of tumor margins leads to the need for more than one stage in 30% of cases. Dual wavelength optical polarization imaging (OPI) provides accurate presurgical delineation of tumor margins, but existing OPI devices are not easily translated to the dermatology clinical setting. We found that the clinically ubiquitous dermatascope can be repurposed as a handheld OPI system that has functionality on par with existing OPI devices at a fraction of the cost.

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Leonid Shmuylovich, Quinlan McGrath, Anmol Jarang, and Michael Butler "Transforming a clinical dermatascope into a dual-wavelength optical polarization imaging device for detecting skin cancer margins", Proc. SPIE PC12816, Photonics in Dermatology and Plastic Surgery 2024, PC128160M (13 March 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2692740

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