Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Smartscope for Normalized Dermatology Picture Taking

Filed under: Dermatology , Plastic Surgery

In the last few years, dermatologists have begun using standard digital cameras to photograph skin conditions for documentation and analysis. A major drawback to this approach is the difficulty in standardizing lighting conditions, camera angles, and other parameters that can affect how the image turns out. The newly released Smartscope from Optomed out of Oulu, Finland takes away many of these uncertainties so that all images are taken at the same distance, lighting conditions, and optical settings.

The Smartscope is a cordless, hand-held digital imaging device that measures and documents skin lesions for use in diagnosing and monitoring skin diseases. A more accurate and user-friendly alternative to standard digital cameras, the Smartscope uses LED illumination to produce consistent, reliable images, which along with measurements and annotations, can be easily transferred to and stored in software that is compatible with electronic medical records. High-resolution images and detailed information captured with the Smartscope can also be printed for the patient or used in case studies submitted to medical journals.

Product page: Optomed Smartscope M3-1 ...

Smartscope brochure...

Press release: New Device Improves Quality of Imaging, Patient Experience

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