RSOM – Raster Scan Optoacoutic Mesoscopy is a technology utilizing optoacoustics for imaging vascular microenvironment at an extremely high resolution of 10um. Optoacoutics excels at imaging hemoglobin as it is the main natural 532nm light absorber in living tissue. By exciting subcutaneous tissue with a 532nm laser, and detecting the ultrasound signal emitted, by a raster moving ultrasound detector, an image of small and large blood vessels is reconstructed and analyzed.
