Fig. 6From: Imaging of peripheral vascular malformations — current concepts and future perspectivesMultispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) of vascular malformations. a Novel hybrid MSOT/US technique was shown to enable distinction of arteriovenous (AVM) from venous (VM) malformations as well as from healthy tissue by non-invasive, contrast-free, and radiation-free imaging of the lesions at the patients’ bedside. Further, as exemplarily shown for a patient receiving complete embolization of an AVM (b), MSOT/US depicted therapy response by showing a reduced signal of oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin (c). ***p < 0.001. Figure adapted from Masthoff M, Helfen A, Claussen J, Karlas A, Markwardt NA, Ntziachristos V, Eisenblätter M, Wildgruber M. Use of Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography to Diagnose Vascular Malformations. JAMA Dermatol. 2018 Dec 1;154(12):1457–1462. doi: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2018.3269. PMID: 30267083; PMCID: PMC6583374© 2018, American Medical AssociationBack to article page