Biomedical and Industrial Applications for Digital Holographic Microscopy
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2026 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: non-invasive and non-destructive optical methods; digital holography; digital holographic interferometry; pulsed digital holography; digital holographic microscopy; biomedical optics
Interests: optical metrology with photons and electrons as applied to a wide variety of objects such as composite materials, bio organisms and cells
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is a growing interest in advancing the use of digital holographic microscopy (DHM) in the biomedical field; this is mainly due to the rapid evolution of innovative optoelectronic technologies and their application in a variety of scientific and industrial fields. This Special Issue aims to highlight specific areas that reflect cutting-edge research using DHM. Thus, we warmly invite submissions of papers on the latest research dedicated to DHM and its applications in biomedicine. The following topics represent key areas of interest for publication, though submissions are not limited to these themes: three-dimensional, multi-wavelength measurements, cellular morphology, cell monitoring, cell imaging, optical tomography, cell refractive index determination, and dynamic DIC. We also welcome manuscripts on innovative state-of-the-art DHM setups, numerical reconstruction methods, quantitative phase images (QPIs), resolution improvement, incoherent digital holography (IDH), digital lensless holographic microscopy, coherence noise reduction, and the use of artificial intelligence to enhance image processing in DHM data. Specifically, we seek applications demonstrating the wide potential that DHM has as an optical metrology technique in domains such as biomedicine, biology, life sciences, fluid dynamics, material sciences, metalworking, and agricultural and environmental industries.
We strongly encourage you to consider submitting your latest research to this Special Issue, which will undoubtedly garner substantial interest within the scientific community.
Dr. Maria Del Socorro Hernandez-Montes
Dr. Fernando Mendoza Santoyo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- DHM
- in-line DHM
- of-axis DHM
- 3D imaging
- label-free imaging
- QPI
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