Front Cover: Imaging of fatty tumors: appearance of subcutaneous clipomas in optoacoustic images (J. Biophotonics 8/2017)

A wide variety of subcutaneous soft-tissue masses may be seen in clinical practice. Handheld multispectral optoacoustic imaging technology (MSOT) was used in a proof-of-principle study to image superficial fatty tumors. Findings indicated that MSOT offers highly complementary contrast to sonography. The images show a pseudo-color representation of three different multi-spectral dataset obtained from subcutaneous lipomas. Signals from blood and fat obtained by multi-spectral unmixing are displayed in red and fat in green, respectively. Further details can be found in the article by A. Buehler et al. on pp. 983–989.