CBIOS - Universidade Lusófona‘s Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies

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Bioengineering

Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography for Functional Imaging in Vascular Research

Tiago Granja¹, Sérgio Faloni de Andrade¹, Luís Monteiro Rodrigues¹

¹CBIOS - Universidade Lusófona‘s Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies

The present protocol describes the acquisition of multispectral optoacoustic images of in vivo human skin vasculature. These include the quantification of hemoglobin and melanin, regarded as chromophores of interest for functional analysis.