In the eight years since publication of the first edition, enormous progress has been made in the field of skin imaging and analysis. Because of the broad array of new methods now available to the research scientist—and more and more to the clinically- oriented dermatologist—we were able to widen the scope of this book from the skin surface to the entire skin. This is also reflected in the change of the volume title, Bioengineering of the Skin: Skin Imaging and Analysis. Hence, this second edition is a major revision of the first edition, with more than 30 new chapters added
