Biophotonics

Call for Papers

Light interacts with living systems at the molecular level, with ultra high spatial and temporal resolutions and with huge signal-to-noise and dynamic range. The specific nature of this interaction and the large variety of optical cutting-edge technologies developed in the last quarter of the 20th century provide today unique tools to probe or modify living cells and tissues. Optical and biomedical scientists, physicists, and engineers are currently living in a critical period in the convergence of the physical and life sciences when the inherent inter disciplinarity of the field becomes a source for innovation and significant technological opportunities of high relevance for the medical needs of humanity. For medical applications, light is safe and the technologies are efficient, compact, minimally invasive, and relatively inexpensive.

The aim of this special issue is to cover recent progress, and hopefully reveal future trends, in biomedical optics and biophotonics. The issue will include primarily invited, but also regular articles, in the following five major areas:

  • Optical biomedical diagnostics
  • Phototherapeutics
  • Enabling optical tools for life sciences research and biotechnology
  • Nanobiophotonics and emerging biomedical optical technologies
  • Biomimetics in optics & negative index materials with biomolecules

Authors should follow the Advances in Optical Technologies manuscript format described at the journal's site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aot/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:

Manuscript DueApril 1, 2008
First Round of ReviewsJune 1, 2008
Publication DateSeptember 1, 2008

Guest Editors

  • Stoyan Tanev, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1S 5B6
  • Brian C. Wilson, Division of Biophysics & Bioimaging, Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 2M9
  • Valery V. Tuchin, Research-Educational Institute of Optics and Biophotonics, Saratov State University, Saratov 410012, Russia
  • Dennis Matthews, Center for Biophotonics Science & Technology and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California Davis, CA 95817, USA