Special Issue on
High-Resolution Optical Focusing and Imaging Within or Through Thick Scattering Media
Call for papers
Optical technologies have been increasingly utilized in biomedicine, including diagnosis, therapy, and surgery. In almost all of these applications, photons need to propagate some distance in tissue. Therefore, the capability of focusing light or demodulating light information plays an essential role, largely determining the sensitivity and spatial resolution of these techniques. This has always been desired yet considered challenging within or through thick biological tissues due to the strong scattering of light. However, research has shown that the seemingly random scattering and the resultant speckle patterns are indeed deterministic within a certain temporal window. This finding has inspired quite a few exciting approaches, such as iterative wavefront shaping, optical phase conjugation, transmission matrix measurement, and adaptive optics to reverse or compensate for the scattering-induced phase distortions, or to reconstruct high-resolution images through or within scattering media. Although it is still in its infancy, development in this field has already shown its potentials to reshape biomedical optics from imaging, sensing, therapy, treatment, and manipulation. Nevertheless, the endeavor is still on. There are still many challenges ahead to make this field beneficial for real applications. A deeper understanding of scattering, novel technologies, and creative applications are highly desirable.
We, therefore, in this special issue, sincerely invite investigators to submit original research and review articles that can reflect the state-of-the-art and stimulate the further development of this field. Topics related to, but are not limited to, the technology development, algorithm development, and application development for high-resolution optical focusing and imaging through or within thick scattering media are all welcome.
Submission format
Manuscripts can be prepared using either MS-Word or Latex. For more details, please visit https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jiohs
JIOHS is indexed by SCI (If 1.136, JCR 2017). JIOHS has been an open-access journal since 2013.
Publication Charge
No article-processing charge if your article is invited by the guest editors.
There will be a 20% discount (original 750 USD) for papers that are not invited but accepted after peer review.
Schedule
· Manuscript submission: 31 March 2019
· Planned publication date: July 2019
Guest Editors
Prof. Puxiang Lai
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Email: puxiang.lai@polyu.edu.hk
Prof. YongKeun Park
Department of Physics, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Email: yk.park@kaist.ac.kr
