The Lucid VivaScope 3000

The VivaScope® 3000 is the world's first handheld reflectance confocal microscope designed specifically for clinical imaging of the skin. It provides the same image quality found in our VivaScope® 1500 imager, in a small, easy-to-use configuration. Its uncompromised image quality allows the VivaScope® 3000 to be substituted for the VivaScope® 1500 when imaging anatomical areas difficult to access with the larger device. For example, the VivaScope® 3000’s compact configuration and flexible, handheld positioning makes it easy for the physician to acquire images of skin around the nose and ear.

The small, light VivaScope® 3000 is ideally suited for routine handheld use in clinical procedures. Its primary features include megapixel resolution; real-time video rate imaging; and on-instrument controls for laser power, imaging depth, image capture, and VivaStack® capture.

The VivaScope 3000 also promises to be useful for mapping the margins of a skin lesion prior to and during surgical procedures. Early publications and clinical studies — either in progress or in planning stages — include using this device to evaluate intrasurgical margins during Mohs surgery for basal cell carcinoma, and in presurgical margin mapping for lentigo maligna.

The VivaScope 3000 utilizes Lucid's patented StableView™ technology to ensure steady, motion-free images. It also uses the same application software as Lucid's other confocal imagers. In a "dual port" system, it can serve as a companion imager to either the VivaScope 1500 or VivaCell 2500 imagers on a single platform.