Low-Cost Confocal Microscopy for Point-of-Care Cellular Morphologic Imaging in Vivo

Abstract

We developed a low-cost (~$5,000) confocal microscope to provide a tool for aiding accurate and early disease diagnosis in low-resource settings. In vivo images of the human skin obtained with the low-cost confocal microscope visualized key cellular features. Preliminary results suggest that the clinical translation of the low-cost confocal microscope for helping the point-of-care disease diagnosis is merited.