ArticleJournal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.)2018
Preoperative measurement of cutaneous melanoma and nevi thickness with photoacoustic imaging.
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- Noninvasive Multimodal Imaging and Its Role in Diagnosing Skin Lesions in Dermatology: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.American journal of clinical dermatology · 2025Pooled it
- Photoacoustic imaging for cutaneous melanoma assessment: a comprehensive review.Journal of biomedical optics · 2024Pooled it
- Assessment of Breast Tumors Using Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography in a Surgical Setting.Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine · 2025Trial
- Non-invasive Imaging Modalities for Breslow Thickness Estimation in Melanoma: A Scoping Review.Skin research and technology : official journal of International Society for Bioengineering and the Skin (ISBS) [and] International Society for Digital Imaging of Skin (ISDIS) [and] International Society for Skin Imaging (ISSI) · 2026Review
- Label-free streamlined photoacoustic image guidance facilitates NIR-II photoablation in models of melanoma lung metastases.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026Article
- Application of photoacoustic imaging in tumor diagnosis and surgical treatment.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Non-invasive characterization of melanoma depth at single-cell resolution.Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV · 2025Article
- Advancing non-invasive melanoma diagnostics with deep learning and multispectral photoacoustic imaging.Photoacoustics · 2025Article
- Recent advancements in molecular photoacoustic tomography.JPhys photonics · 2025Review
- Review of Non-Invasive Imaging Technologies for Cutaneous Melanoma.Biosensors · 2025Review
- Dual-modal Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging: from preclinical to clinical applications.Frontiers in photonics · 2024Article
- Enhancing photoacoustic imaging for lung diagnostics and BCI communication: simulation of cavity structures artifact generation and evaluation of noise reduction techniques.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Advanced nanomaterials for imaging of eye diseases.ADMET & DMPK · 2024Review
- Niche preclinical and clinical applications of photoacoustic imaging with endogenous contrast.Photoacoustics · 2023Review
- Differentiation Between Benign and Malignant Pigmented Skin Tumours Using Bedside Diagnostic Imaging Technologies: A Pilot Study.Acta dermato-venereologica · 2022Article
- Photoacoustic imaging of periorbital skin cancerBiomedical optics express · 2022Article
- Contrast agents for photoacoustic imaging: a review of stem cell tracking.Stem cell research & therapy · 2021Review
- Comparison of photoacoustic imaging and histopathological examination in determining the dimensions of 52 human melanomas and neviBiomedical optics express · 2021Article
- Regional motion correction forBiomedical optics express · 2021Article
- Photoacoustic imaging for three-dimensional visualization and delineation of basal cell carcinoma in patients.Photoacoustics · 2020Article
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Abstract
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging biomedical imaging technology, which can potentially be used in the clinic to preoperatively measure melanoma thickness and guide biopsy depth and sample location. We recruited 27 patients with pigmented cutaneous lesions suspicious for melanoma to test the feasibility of a handheld linear-array photoacoustic probe in imaging lesion architecture and measuring tumor depth. The probe was assessed in terms of measurement accuracy, image quality, and ease of application. Photoacoustic scans included single wavelength, spectral unmixing, and three-dimensional (3-D) scans. The photoacoustically measured lesion thickness gave a high correlation with the histological thickness measured from resected surgical samples ([Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] for melanomas, [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] for nevi). Thickness measurements were possible for 23 of 26 cases for nevi and all (6) cases for melanoma. Our results show that handheld, linear-array PAI is highly reliable in measuring cutaneous lesion thickness
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