Biomedical Optics: From Technologies to Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Biomedical optics plays an increasingly important role in both preclinical research and clinical applications. Many biomedical optics techniques have become indispensable in biomedical research and everyday clinical applications. For example, fluorescence microscopy and confocal microscopy are already necessary infrastructure for all biological labs; different types of endoscopies have been widely used in routine medical checks; optical coherence tomography has become the standard diagnostic tool for many ophthalmological pathologies; and nonlinear optics, such as multi-photon microscopy, has attracted a lot of attention with its potential to answer challenging medical questions.

This Topical Collection aims to publish select articles covering a wide range of biomedical optics, from technologies to applications. The following specific biomedical optics techniques are of utmost interest:

1. Optical coherence tomography;
2. Photoacoustic imaging;
3. Diffuse optics;
4. Multi-photon microscopy;
5. Light-sheet microscopy.

Original research articles submitted to this Topical Collection should either focus on novel technical advancements in both hardware and software or have interesting and meaningful preclinical or clinical applications. Review articles are also welcome, but they need to be unique in their perspective.

Dr. Mengyang Liu
Collection Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the collection website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Diagnostics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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