Handheld multi-modal imaging for point-of-care skin diagnosis based on akinetic integrated optics optical coherence tomography.

A handheld skin imaging system with joint optical coherence tomography (OCT) at 1300 nm and digital epiluminescence microscopy (EM) is presented. The 2 modalities are physically co-registered in a common-path configuration. The instrument is enabled by a dedicated planar lightwave circuit with a footprint of only 1.