Basic Science and Instrumentation Scientific Session 1
Can contrast-free ultrasound quantitative microvessel imaging help in differentiation of small choroidal melanoma from benign nevus?
Sunday, April 7, 2024
9:41am – 9:53am
Location: 412
Authors: Soroosh Sabeti, Mayo Clinic Shaheeda Adusei, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Nicholas Larson, Mayo Clinic Lauren Dalvin, Mayo Clinic Mostafa Fatemi, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine & Science Azra Alizad, Mayo Clinic ,
Small tumors presenting in an extremely sensitive organ such as eye, where biopsies are accompanied by high-morbidity risks and expensive multimodal imaging approaches limit the feasible diagnostic tools at hand. What if accurate diagnosis of these tumors (early-stage choroidal melanoma) could be achieved using a complementary non-invasive accessible tool (a contrast-free ultrasound-based approach called quantitative high-definition microvasculature imaging)? In this talk, we present how this method noninvasively captures images of tiny vessels within tumors and how microvessel quantification and analysis could potentially help in determining the state of intraocular tumors.