“…Furthermore, the ICG signal may be hindered further by blood pooling within the surgical field secondary to blood loss, which is not uncommon in hepatobiliary surgery [79]. Of importance, hemoglobin is one of the few strong endogenous contrast agents that allow for the identification of microvascular changes and tissue oxygenation using MSOT [58,80], and it has been successfully used to monitor tumor responses to antiangiogenic agents in mouse models [81]. Exogenous contrast agents used for OA imaging in preclinical mouse studies include organic dyes, such as ICG, and nanoparticles, such as gold, silver, tungsten, iron oxide, and carbon nanotubes [64,70,71].…”