Optical Sensors in Multi-Modal Imaging

Dear Colleagues,

Biophotonics have been evolving in clinical diagnostics and interventions to provide molecular contrast of target lesions at high spatial/temporal resolutions. Recently, there have been extensive efforts for synergetic integration with other modalities using acoustics, radiation, and the magnetic field to take advantage of optical contrast while supplementing its limitation in field-of-view and/or sensing depth. However, such biophotonic sensors necessitate meticulous design to guarantee an expected clinical performance with restrictions in space, spatiotemporal resolution, contrast, and/or theranostic efficacy in sophisticated multimodal approaches.

This Special Issue on “Optical Sensors in Multi-Modal Imaging” invites cutting-edge technologies in biophotonics pushing the envelope of current clinical conventions with the best effective multimodal approaches in clinics. This issue accepts both high-quality original research articles and review articles, by which comprehensive perspectives will be given to readers from past breakthroughs to the state-of-the-art. We also encourage researchers to report translational developments in a pathway toward clinical applications.

The Special Issue includes but is not limited to the following applications:

• Biophotonics in multimodal diagnostics and interventions;
• Optical sensors in multimodal integration;
• Physical, chemical optical sensors;
• Advanced optical design;
• Optoelectronic devices;
• Implantable/miniaturized/portable optical devices;
• Advanced image/signal processing;
• Sensor fusion;
• Optical biomarkers for multi-modal diagnostics or theranostics;
• Multimodal techniques for pre/clinical applications;
• Machine learning techniques for effective multimodal diagnostics and interventions.

Dr. Jeeun Kang
Prof. Dr. Changho Lee
Guest Editors

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