Despite decades of tremendous efforts, cancer is still one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. The use of imaging technique to detect cancers at an early stage and to achieve image-guided cancer therapy provides better opportunities for patients to obtain more effective treatment with fewer side effects. To date, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is the fastest-growing area of biomedical imaging technologies, which enables anatomical, functional and molecular imaging of biological tissues with high resolution, high contrast and satisfactory penetration depth. More importantly, nanostructures integrating PAI-based cancer theranostics have been widely developed since they have the potential to be used for personalized medicine.
It is expected that the combination of multifunctional nanoprobes with PAI is able to offer high-sensitivity cancer detection and imaging-guided cancer treatment with high efficacy.
The topics for this special issue include but are not limited to:
1. Development of multifunctional nanoparticles for PAI and photoacoustic-based multimodal imaging for cancer detection.
2. Development of organic/inorganic nanoprobes or small-molecular probes for PAI-guided cancer treatment such as photodynamic and photothermal therapy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy and others.
3. Development of multifunctional nanoprobes for PAI-guided drug/gene delivery or tumor microenvironments monitoring.
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(IF1.136, 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 editor.
USD750 if your article is not invited by the guest editor and has been accepted for inclusion in this special issue after peer review.
Schedule
· Manuscript submission: 15 January 2019
· Planned publication date: March 2019
Guest Editors
Prof. Zhen Yuan
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China
Email: zhenyuan@umac.mo
Prof. Changfeng Wu
Biomedical Engineering Dept., Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Email: wucf@sustc.edu.cn
