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• slide1: Thank you for inviting me to give a presentation on the Sara
• slide2: The main aim of the studies I want to present here is to und
• slide3: All techniques used in our studies, Confocal laser scanning
• slide4: We have performed two human volunteer studies, AGEING I and
• slide5: The following slides will shortly summarize the findings of
• slide6: With OCT, images in cross-section are obtained. Our system,
• slide7: The cross-sectional OCT images in this slide are measured on
• slide8: From Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy the thickness and lo
• slide9: We can observe that the position of the fibrous layer (at UD
• slide10: This schematic overview presents the mean values, as obtaine
• slide11: We have compared the results obtained with CLSM and OCT by p
• slide12: A typical OCT image of a forearm shows two bright reflecting
• slide13: To conclude the first part:
• slide14: In the following slides I will summarize the findings of our
• slide15: In this slide two ultrasound images are shown, measured in a
• slide16: We have plotted the mean traces from the two images. In blue
• slide17: If we compare the traces measured with OCT and measured with
• slide18: A comparison of traces measured with OCT and with ultrasound
• slide19: To summarize our observations:
• slide20: As can be seen with optical techniques, the structure and lo
• slide21: Upon ageing, fibrous structures in the dermis become thinner
• slide22: This slides gives a visual representation of the dermal stru
• slide23: To summarize:

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