Assessment of tissue changes in the salivary glands in Sjögren's syndrome using multispectral optoacoustic tomography

Introduction More than half of all patients with Sjögren's syndrome show characteristic sonomorphological changes in the salivary glands. The significance these alterations diagnosis disease has been part extensive evaluation. With help multispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT), further knowledge on still unclear tissue responsible for this is to be obtained first time.