Photonics for Basic and Clinical Brain Research
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2022) | Viewed by 229
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fluorescence lifetime microscopy; brain energy metabolism; cerebral blood flow; neurodegeneration
Interests: optical coherence tomography; laser speckle contrast imaging; dynamic imaging; functional ultrasound imaging; ultrasound localization microscopy (super-resolution ultrasound imaging); focused ultrasound therapy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
Optical technologies have been indispensable for unlocking the mysteries of the brain since the very inception of modern neuroscience. To help maintain the vital role of photonics for yielding impactful discoveries in neuroscience, we invite you to “shed more light” on the brain by contributing an article to an upcoming special issue of Photonics (IF 2.676, CiteScore 3.5, MDPI publishing,) entitled: “Photonics for Basic and Clinical Brain Research”.
This special section highlights optical-based modalities applied for understanding healthy and diseased brain physiology and morphology. We invite you to submit original articles, brief letters, and review articles describing novel experimental or theoretical photonic applications into basic or clinical brain research. This special issue will welcome basic, methodological and applied cutting-edge research contributions focusing on:
- Healthy and diseased brain function
- Cerebral hemodynamics and neurovascular coupling
- Cerebral energy metabolism
- Optical neural interfaces
- Optical modulation of neural and microvascular activity
- Neuroimmune interactions
- Instrumentation development for in vivo, in vitro, and ex vivo brain imaging and modulation
- Multimodal and multiscale brain imaging methods
- Validation of methods and tools developed for preclinical and clinical brain research
The article submission deadline is 1 December 2022. Please visit the special issue website for submission information, and please forward this call to anyone you think may be interested.
Dr. Abbas Yaseen
Dr. Jianbo Tang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- brain function
- photoacoustic imaging
- near-infrared spectroscopy
- neural stimulation
- multiphoton imaging
- optical coherence tomography
- laser speckle contrast imaging
- optical intrinsic signal imaging
- diffuse correlation spectroscopy
- Raman spectroscopy
- coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering
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