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FORTHCOMING SPECIAL SECTIONS:
Photoacoustic Imaging and Sensing
Selected Topics in Biophotonics: Optical Coherence Tomography and Medical Imaging Using Diffuse Optics
Optical Diagnostic and Biophotonic Methods from Bench to Bedside
Laser Technologies for Biomedical Applications
Multiphoton microscopy: technical innovations, biological applications, and clinical diagnostics
Optical Methods of Imaging in the Skin
June 2012
Photoacoustic Imaging and Sensing
Guest Editors:
Mark A. Anastasio, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
Department of Biomedical Engineering
St. Louis, Missouri 63130
Tel: 312-567-3926
E-mail: anastasio@wustl.edu
Paul C. Beard, Ph.D.
University College London
Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
Tel: 44 207 679 0290
E-mail: pbeard@medphys.ucl.ac.uk
Call for Papers: Photoacoustic imaging is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in biomedical optics. Photoacoustic imaging methods are capable of deep tissue penetration, high ultrasonic resolution, and speckle-free optical contrast. Important emerging applications include in-vivo functional and molecular imaging of cancer, neurophysiology, and vascular disease in both human subjects and preclinical animal models. Major challenges in this field include the development of quantitative methods for functional and molecular imaging and their clinical translation. This special section will cover all topics related to photoacoustic imaging and sensing, including, but not limited to the following:
- photoacoustic (optoacoustic) microscopy
- photoacoustic (optoacoustic) imaging and computed tomography
- photoacoustic (optoacoustic) sensing and spectroscopy
- microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography
- temperature imaging based on the photoacoustic effect
- dual-modality optical-ultrasound imaging
- molecular and nanoparticle contrast agents
- ultrasound-modulated optical (acousto-optical) tomography
- image reconstruction and signal-processing algorithms
- applications of hybrid modalities in biology and medicine.
Closed for submissions.
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July 2012
Selected Topics in Biophotonics: Optical Coherence Tomography and Medical Imaging Using Diffuse Optics
Guest Editors
Call for Papers: Every other year, an international graduate summer school is held on the island of Ven in Sweden, organized between Lund University in Sweden and the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark (www.biop.dk/biophotonics11/). This call for papers reflects core topics of the school, including the fields of diffuse optical imaging and optical coherence tomography.
Multispectral diffuse optical imaging is a biomedical optical modality providing interesting possibilities to minimally invasively map physiological conditions in tissue without any exogenous labeling agent. It is promising as a powerful diagnostic tool, as well as for controlling and guiding therapy. Improved spatial resolution can be gained by utilizing spatial or temporal discrimination, often in the frequency domain. Recent development has further increased the clinical and preclinical use.
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging biomedical imaging modality that enables high-speed, ultrahigh-resolution, cross-sectional imaging of internal structure in tissues. In the last two decades OCT has established itself as a unique noninvasive optical medical diagnostic imaging modality, enabling unprecedented in vivo cross-sectional tomographic visualization of internal microstructure in a variety of biological systems. Ophthalmology has been the most successful and most commercially active medical field for OCT so far, but several other OCT applications, e.g., cardiology, dentistry, gastroenterology, and dermatology, are on the verge of expanding their market for OCT to be comparable to or larger than that of ophthalmology.
Areas of interest for this special section include, but are not limited to:
- Optical coherence tomography: light sources, systems, and applications
- Diffuse optical imaging
- Fluorescence lifetime imaging
- Molecular imaging based on optical methods
- Photoacoustic imaging
- Photodynamic therapy
- Tissue optics
- Optical trapping and applications in biophotonics.
Closed for submissions.
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August 2012
Optical Diagnostic and Biophotonic Methods from Bench to Bedside
Guest Editors
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Bruce Tromberg, Ph.D.
University of California/Irvine
Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinc
1002 Health Sciences Road East
Irvine, California 92612
Tel: 949-824-8705
Fax: 949-824-8413
E-mail: bjtrombe@uci.edu
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Jana Kainerstorfer, Ph.D.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health
Building 9, Room B1E11
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Tel: 301-594-0352
Fax: 301-480-2427
E-mail: kainersj@mail.nih.gov
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Call for papers: After a decade of collaboration among physicists, engineers, and physicians, optical imaging techniques are moving from bench to bedside at an extremely fast rate. Quantification of intrinsic chromophores, scattering properties, and targeted probes provide valuable functional information for diagnosing disease and monitoring therapies. With these advances, optical methods have become critical tools for translational research and studying the fundamental molecular origins of disease processes, from photonic studies of nanoscale interactions to ultrahigh resolution microscopy. This special section follows the Seventh Inter-Institute Workshop on Optical Diagnostics and Biophotonic Methods at the National Institutes of Health, and will be devoted to all aspects of bringing optical imaging technology from the desktop, where quantitative theories are devised; to the bench, where the instrumentation is designed and tested; and finally, to the bedside, where performance is validated in a demanding clinical setting. This workshop is dedicated to the work and legacy of Britton Chance.
Closed for submissions.
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October 2012
Laser Technologies for Biomedical Applications
Guest Editors
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Ekaterina Borisova, Ph.D.
Institute of Electronics
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
72, Tsarigradsko chaussee Boulevard
1784 Sofia
Bulgaria
Fax: +359 2-974-5742
Tel: +359 2-979-5875
E-mail: borisova@ie.bas.bg
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Alexander Priezzhev, Ph.D.
Physics Department and International Laser Center
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
119991, Moscow, Leninskye Gory, b. 1, str. 2
Russia
Tel: +7 495-939-2612
Fax: +7 495-939-3113
E-mail: avp2@mail.ru
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Call for papers: This special section of the Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) is planned as a collection of selected papers presented at the 19th International Conference on Advanced Laser Technologies (September 3-8, 2011, Golden Sands Resort, Bulgaria). Authors who did not participate in the conference are also invited to submit papers focused on laser technologies for biomedical applications.
Topics may include:
- Laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy of biological tissues
- 3-D imaging techniques, including OCT, Doppler-OCT, two-photon microscopy, and confocal microscopy
- Ultrafast laser technologies for biomedical applications
- Novel laser methods, instrumentation, and technologies in biophotonics and nanobiophotonics
- Optics of blood and other tissues
- Photodynamic medicine
- Optoacoustics/photoacoustics.
Closed for submissions.
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March 2013
Multiphoton microscopy: technical innovations, biological applications, and clinical diagnostics
Guest Editors:
Paul J. Campagnola
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
E-mail: pcampagnola@wisc.edu
Chen-Yuan Dong
Department of Physics
National Taiwan University
Taipei 106, Taiwan
E-mail: cydong@phys.ntu.edu.tw
Karsten Koenig
Department of Biophotonics and Laser Technology
Saarland University
66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
E-mail: k.koenig@blt.uni-saarland.de
Jerome Mertz
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
Boston 02215, Massachusetts
E-mail: jmertz@bu.edu
Peter T. C. So
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
E-mail: ptso@mit.edu
Chris Xu
Department of Applied and Engineering Physics
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853
E-mail: cx10@cornell.edu
Call for Papers: In the decades since researchers began to explore nonlinear optical phenomena in biological systems, biological optical microscopy has entered a new realm. Among the numerous advantages of this new form of microscopy are intrinsic optical sectioning, reduced photodamage, and label-free imaging. These features have rendered multiphoton microscopy to be the preferred imaging modality in many applications of biological optical microscopy, especially when biological specimens are examined in three dimensions and inside living organisms. Over the years, numerous technical innovations have been proposed, as the full potential of these innovations in basic biological research has been explored. In addition, multiphoton imaging has recently shown tremendous potential as a potential diagnostic platform in clinics. In view of the impact of multiphoton microscopy in biological and medical sciences, this special section will provide both reviews and reports on recent progress in technical innovations, biological applications, and clinical diagnostics. Topics of interest include multiphoton fluorescence excitation, harmonic generation, vibration-based, and other nonlinear techniques. Original research articles are welcome and review papers will be invited by the guest editors.
Manuscripts due 1 July 2012.
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June 2013
Optical Methods of Imaging in the Skin
Guest Editor
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Jürgen Lademann, Ph.D.
Center of Experimental and Applied Cutaneous Physiology
Department of Dermatology, Venerology, and Allergology
Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Charitéplatz 1, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30 450 518 100
Fax: +49 30 450 518 918
E-mail: juergen.lademann@charite.de
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Call for Papers: This special section of the Journal of Biomedical Optics will focus on the application of optical and spectroscopic methods in dermatology, cosmetics, and cutaneous physiology.
Topics may include:
- Laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy
- 3D-imaging techniques, optical coherence tomography (OCT), Doppler OCT
- Two-photon microscopy
- Confocal microscopy
- Nanobiophotonics
- Blood-flow measurements
- Photodynamic therapy
- Optoacoustics/photoacoustics.
Manuscripts due 1 September 2012.
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