Showing Acne Bacteria Activity by Skin Fluorescence
The camera camera uses a specific UV-light to visualize the fluorescing acne lesions impressively.
What can be seen?
- Porphyrins (bacterial pigments creating comedones and later acne)become visible as fluorescent orange-red spots in the pores under the specific UV light.
- The software distinguishes between acne bacteria andother lesions (more greenish/yellowish).
- Especially the difference between images before and after a certain treatment is extremely interesting.
Advantages of the Visiopor® camera
- Connect the Visopor®directly to your computer via USB.
- Easyto use and very economic
- The cameras comes with convenient evaluation software distinguishing the reddish-orange porphyrins of the bacteria from other yellowish-greenish fluorescents in quantity, size and intensity.
Fields of Application
There are numerous applications in the institutes and cosmetology especially in the field of acne:
- Detection of early invisiblelesions and visualization of advanced small acne lesions
- Promotion of anti-bacterial products, cleansers and drugs against P. acnes
- Monitoring the course of treatments
