Optical Coherence Tomography in the Evaluation of the Scalp and Hair: Common Features and Clinical Utility

Early diagnosis and treatment of hair loss disorders is vital in providing patients with improved psychological outcomes. Non‐invasive imaging with optical coherence tomography (OCT) may be useful in characterizing and managing alopecia. Despite expanding clinical applications of OCT in dermatology, guidelines demonstrating in vivo features of normal and alopecic scalp images remain scant. This pilot study aims to provide an atlas of OCT findings of healthy and alopecia subjects, explore diagnostic quantitative endpoints of alopecia, and compare epidermal thickness and follicular density between scalp regions.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

• Publication date

  2020-04-06

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/lsm.23243PMID 32253781
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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