Under your skin: The Brussels dermatology clinic on a mission to detect melanomas with cutting-edge Vectra machine

I’m down to my underwear and standing in the middle of a shiny white high-tech machine as cameras simultaneously scan every surface of my skin.The imaging of each single mole is over in a flash. I join dermatologist Dr Carmen Orte Cano as she casts her expert eye over a single 3D picture of my body. Thanks to the state-of-the-art Vectra machine, the microscopic structure of every blemish on my skin is monitored to pinpoint any suspicious lesions.As she zooms in on a couple of moles with a hand-held magnifying dermatoscope, the doctor at the Dermatology & Research Institute in Brussels explains how the €500,000 Vectra machine (pictured above)…