Clinical oncology can benefit substantially from imaging technologies that reveal
physiological characteristics with multiscale observations. Complementing conventional …

In the past decade, photoacoustic (PA) imaging has attracted a great deal of popularity as an
emergent diagnostic technology owing to its successful demonstration in both preclinical …

Significance Cutaneous melanoma (CM) has a high morbidity and mortality rate, but it can
be cured if the primary lesion is detected and treated at an early stage. Imaging techniques …

Radical excision of periorbital skin tumors is difficult without sacrificing excessive healthy
tissue. Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is an emerging non-invasive biomedical imaging …

Super-resolution image acquisition has turned photo-activated far-infrared thermal imaging
into a promising tool for the characterization of biological tissues. By the sub-diffraction …

Skin architecture and its underlying vascular structure could be used to assess the health
status of skin. A non‐invasive, high resolution and deep imaging modality able to visualize …

Surgical excision followed by histopathological examination is the gold standard for
melanoma screening. However, the color-based inspection of hematoxylin-and-eosin …

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is rapidly emerging as a promising clinical diagnostic tool. One
of the main applications of PA imaging is to image vascular networks in humans. This relies …

This feature issue of Biomedical Optics Express covered all aspects of translational
photoacoustic research. Application areas include screening and diagnosis of diseases …

Purpose The gold standard for skin cancer diagnosis is surgical excisional biopsy and
histopathological examination. Several non-invasive diagnostic techniques exist, although …