Mitigating skin tone bias in linear array <i>in vivo</i> photoacoustic imaging with short-lag spatial coherence beamforming.

"data availability data will be made available on request. acknowledgments this study was supported in part by - finance code 001 in part by under grant 476671"

"Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"This study was supported in part by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001, in part by 10.13039/501100003593Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil under Grant 476671/2013-2, in part by 10.13039/501100001807Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil under Grants 2013/18854-6, 2017/14482-8, 2018/16939-8, 2021/06728-2, and 2022/01420-2. M.A.L.B. acknowledges grant number 2022-309513 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, an advised fund of 10.13039/100000923Silicon Valley Community Foundation, United States, and the 10.13039/100000002National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States R01 EB032960 for partial support of her time on this project. This publication was also possible in part with support from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR), which is funded in part by Grant Number UL1 TR003098 from the 10.13039/100006108National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), United States a component of the NIH and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of the Johns Hopkins ICTR, NCATS, or NIH. We additionally thank Carlos Renato Silva and Agnelo dos Santos Bastos Neto for their technical support."