In message  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950825092707.27119C-100000@fred> Paul Goodwin writes:
> I was asked by a colleague and thought I would pass on two questions:
> 1) Does anyone know how many confocal systems have been sold in Europe,
> the US, Japan, and the world?
>
> 2) I anyone aware of current clinical applications for confocal microscopy.
>
> TIA (Thanks in advance not Transient Ischemia Attack)
 
Paul--
 
The clinical uses of which I'm aware for confocal are mostly in
ophthalmology--looking at living cornea, at present.  There are people at
Minnesota looking at wound-healing after corneal transplants, for instance.
Also, I think that there's an Australian company that's been working on a
confocal endoscope--I believe there was a paper on using some such device
(perhaps a difference one) to examine the myenteric plexus in vivo.  However, I
may be making that up.  (--a real TIA on my part--)
 
Take care--
 
Martin