Optical Biomedical Imaging

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submission to this Special Issue on Optical Biomedical Imaging.

This area of research has experienced rapid growth over the last three decades. This growth derives, in part, from light-based modalities being noninvasive, safe, and relatively inexpensive, with diagnostic potential. Interactions with biomedical media may change such salient features as intensity, wavelength, coherence, phase, polarization, and directionality, as well as pulse duration of a beam of light, and thus provide a basis for development of novel imaging modalities. Advances in light sources, detectors, modulation schemes, beam shaping approaches, and numerical algorithms are enabling development of imaging methods for probing diseases in different body organs. Optical coherence tomography has already made a transition to the bedside. Other modalities are at different stages of research and development. 

The intent of this Special Issue is to explore where we are and what the future holds in this exciting area of human health related research. To that end, we invite submissions involving new techniques, methods, applications, results, as well as review articles.

Prof. Dr. Swapan K. Gayen
Guest Editor

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