Optical Assessment of Metabolism—2nd Edition
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Metabolomic Profiling Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2026 | Viewed by 173
Special Issue Editors
Interests: functional near-infrared spectroscopy; diffuse correlation spectroscopy; cerebral hemodynamics; multimodal neuromonitoring; neurocritical care bioinformatics; functional mitochondrial imaging
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Optical techniques have been employed with remarkable success to probe metabolic activities across scales, from the single cell to highly scattering tissues. This Special Issue highlights advances in the development and application of optical techniques to probe metabolism. We therefore welcome innovative manuscripts that feature optical methods for measuring metabolism and metabolites, optical biomarkers of mitochondrial health, optical assessment of metabolism physiology and clinical applications of metabolic measurements.
This Special Issue aims to provide a broad summary of recent developments in the field and inform future directions for optical metabolism research. It is currently open for submission. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the Special Issue website.
Dr. Wesley Baker
Dr. Joseph B. Majeski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- diffuse optical spectroscopy
- metabolomics
- oxygen metabolism
- mitochondria
- fluorescence imaging
- Raman spectroscopy
- intrinsic optical imaging
- clinical applications
- speckle-based flow techniques
- optical coherence tomography
- Fourier transform near-infrared spectroscopy
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