Biomedical Photonics
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 273
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The 21st century is regarded as the "Century of Brain Research." The brain, as the most important and complex organ in the human body, plays a crucial role in exploring mechanisms related to human thought, cognition, and behavior. Brain metabolism levels can measure the intensity of neural activity and energy consumption, making it essential in brain science research. Imaging technologies based on biomedical photonics offer non-invasive methods for studying brain metabolism and have had a profound impact on neuroscience and brain disease research. Among these imaging technologies, near-infrared imaging, Raman imaging, multiphoton microscopy, fluorescence wide-field microscopy, super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, and photoacoustic imaging have all been successfully applied to brain imaging, providing metabolism information about the brain at various scales and functions.
Currently, two-photon microscopy methods are capable of capturing brain neuron activity at high resolutions and fast speeds. On the other hand, photoacoustic imaging can acquire vascular multi-functional parameters in deep-brain tissue at a much higher temporal resolution. In this Research Topic, we welcome original research articles that utilize advanced optical imaging tools to study cerebral functional parameters like cerebral blood flow (CBF), oxygen saturation (sO2), cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2), as well as to study the neurovascular coupling effect and the brain metabolism process. Additionally, the call is also open for more theoretical approaches in the form of review, perspective, and opinion articles on promising future approaches for research on brain imaging, function, and metabolism.
In particular, we welcome contributions on the following subtopics:
- Advanced biomedical photonics techniques, including but not limited to two-photon microscopy and imaging and photoacoustic imaging for assessing the cerebral functional parameters.
- Exploiting multimodal imaging to provide etiologic insights into brain metabolism in vivo from molecular, structural, and functional perspectives.
- Investigations into the molecular mechanisms of neurovascular coupling effects in the brain, revealed through in vivo optical imaging.
- Review and perspective articles discussing the latest advances and future prospects of various optical imaging techniques for brain imaging, functionality, and metabolism.
Dr. Chao Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomedical photonics
- brain imaging and metabolism
- two-photon microscopy
- photoacoustic imaging
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