Advances of Spectral Sensors in Detecting and Monitoring Diseases: Volume 2

Dear Colleagues,

Any quantity measured as a function of energy can release a spectrum. Hence, exploiting material properties via interaction with diverse forms of energy would lead to a kind of spectral sensor. Diagnostics is the most important step towards healing various diseases. A combination of clinical and paraclinical investigations with faster, minimally invasive and more accurate techniques, such as ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, computer tomography, as well as real-time exploration in surgery, are highly desirable for a faster and less aggressive diagnosis. Food-borne and environmental diseases should not be neglected.  The monitoring of treatment is, in the end, a result of a step-by-step diagnosis that includes the so-called follow up. Spectral sensors can be used to advance both our knowledge and new technology, especially nanotechnology. This leads to the creation of nanostructures and nanoparticles that have various interactions with electromagnetic fields, e.g., with infrared, UV-VIS, Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence, chemo-luminescence spectroscopies, to name only a few of the most common effects. Guidance in laparoscopic and reconstruction surgery is essential, and intraoperative diagnostics, for example in oncology surgery, should gain more recognition.

This Special Issue addresses the topics described above, but related research is also welcome. Short reports, animal care, and pure animal research (except animal models) are excluded.

Dr. Cristiana Eugenia Ana Grigorescu
Dr. Ana Maria Iordache
Guest Editors

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