VivaScope - 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 the VivaScope® 1500 imager on a single platform.

Contact Lucid, Inc. for more information.