E-Mail IMAGE: (Left to Right) Members of the NTU research team include Assistant Professor Grzegorz Lisak from NTU's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD student Yi-Heng Cheong, the study's first author... view more Credit: NTU Singapore A team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a portable device that produces high-resolution 3D images of human skin within 10 minutes. The team said the portable skin mapping (imaging) device could be used to assess the severity of skin conditions, such as eczema and psoriasis. 3D skin mapping could be useful to clinicians, as most equipment used to assess skin conditions only provide 2D images of the skin surface. As the device also maps out the depth of the ridges and grooves of the skin at up to 2mm, it could also help with monitoring wound healing.