Recent progress in the imaging of lymph and blood microcirculation

The blood and lymphatic vascular systems play a key role in the human body. Abnormalities in vascular networks, blood and lymph microcirculation are typically associated with various diseases, such as diabetes, arteriosclerosis, venous leg ulceration, anemia, ischemia and tumors development. Therefore, the techniques for advanced monitoring and characterization of vascular networks, blood and lymph microcirculation are instantly required. The results and recent progress in the development of hybrid multimodal imaging methods, utilized the use of Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), Fluorescent Intravital Microscopy (FIM), and other imaging modalities, and their use for the major vascular applications are reviewed/presented.