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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Dermatol. 2012 Oct 5;167(6):1215–1223. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2012.11139.x

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Tomographic images taken in situ from human port-wine stained skin (PWS). Image A, Conventional optical coherence tomographic (OCT) image before laser exposure. Optical Doppler tomographic (ODT) blood flow images before (B) and immediately after (C) laser exposure. Images A, B, and C are the same skin site with a fixed probe beam. Images B and C, Color-coded tomographic images of blood flow velocity. PWS vessels not seen on the conventional OCT image (A) are detected in the dermis in the ODT image before laser exposure (B). Blood flow is absent in the ODT image immediately after laser exposure (C). Image D, Hematoxylin-eosin–stained histologic section from the imaged site. Comparable PWS blood vessels are noted in images B and D. {Used with permission from Ref. (22)}