In vivo, high-resolution, three-dimensional imaging of port wine stain microvasculature in human skin

• Published in: Lasers in surgery and medicine Vol. 45; no. 10; pp. 628 - 632
• Main Authors: Liu, Gangjun, Jia, Wangcun, Nelson, J. Stuart, Chen, Zhongping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2013; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adult; Algorithms; biology and medicine; Case-Control Studies; Female; Humans; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Male; medical optics and biotechnology; Microvessels - pathology; optical coherence tomography; port sine stain; Port-Wine Stain - pathology; Tomography, Optical Coherence - methods; Vitaceae; medical optics and biotechnology; biology and medicine; port sine stain; optical coherence tomography

Background and Objectives Port‐wine stain (PWS) is a congenital, progressive vascular malformation of the dermis. The use of optical coherence tomography (OCT) for the characterization of blood vessels in PWS skin has been demonstrated by several groups. In the past few years, advances in OCT techno...