Research and System Development on Functional 3D Optical Tomography for Skin Cell Imaging

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01557205

Enrollment

Registered

2012-03-19

Start date

2012-03-31

Completion date

2013-04-30

Last updated

2012-03-19

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Conditions

Optical Coherence Tomography, Skin Cell Imaging

Keywords

optical coherence tomography, cell imaging

Brief summary

The investigators will obtain human skin specimen (sized approximately 1 cm x 1 cm) for dermatological surgical patients in National Taiwan University Hospital, after informed consent was obtained. Human skin keratinocytes, fibroblasts, and melanocytes will be cultured from the human skin specimen. The three dimensional images of these cultured cells will be observed by a ultra-high resolution 3-dimensional optical coherence tomography.

Detailed description

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

20 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Aged between 20 to 100. * People who received benign skin tumor removal in dermatological surgical unit. OR * People who received skin grafts (full thickness or split thickness) for reconstruction of surgical wounds after removing malignant skin cancer.

Exclusion criteria

* Age less than 20 years old, * Psychiatric patients, * Pregnant women.

Outcome results