Call for Papers
Special Issue on Polarization of Light in Biomedical Applications
The use of polarization of light in biomedical applications is an emerging research area with significant progress achieved in the recent years. Recent progress in using polarized light in biomedical applications is attracting high interests both in academy and industry. The development and clinical implementation of polarization-based optical imaging and diagnostic modalities, as well as translation of technologies developed in the neighbour fields, e.g. ellipsometry, astrophysics, photo-elastography, and other, to the needs of biomedicine provides more opportunities to healthcare professionals and extends significantly the diagnostic toolkit.
The aim of this special issue is to highlight the most recent work and developments in the field of Polarized Light in Biomedical Applications, including fundamental, clinical and pre-clinical studies, as well as the results of new explorations related to the use of polarized light in life sciences and for health care needs. Research papers, review articles, short communications and clinical case studies are very welcomed to be submitted and highly appreciated. All manuscripts will be internationally peer-reviewed. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include, but are not limited to the following:
PROPERTIES OF TISSUES
Tissue scattering and depolarization
Tissue birefringence, diattenuation, Poincare sphere
Imaging of polarization properties
Validation of polarimetric approaches
Orbital Angular Momentum and tissue interaction
NOVEL POLARIMETRIC TECHNIQUES AND METHODS
Mueller-Stokes polarimetry
Polarized light microscopy
Polarized light endoscopy
Polarization-based fluorescence imaging
Circular dichroism
Shaped light with Orbital Angular Momentum
Higher order Poincare sphere, generalized Mueller matrix formalism
Interaction of spin and orbital angular momentum of light
Topological states and scattering
BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF POLARIZED LIGHT
Reproductive medicine
Ophthalmology
Neurosurgery
Gastroenterology
Cardiac
Dermatology.
Submission deadline: May 1, 2022
Planned publication date: November 1, 2022
Submission format
Authors should use the Latex or MS-Word style files. For more details, please visit https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jiohs
JIOHS is indexed by SCIE (IF 1.770, JCR 2020). JIOHS has been a fully open-access journal since 2013.
Feature Editors:
Igor Meglinski
College of Engineering and Physical Science
Aston University
Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
E-mail: i.meglinski@aston.ac.uk
Lingyan Shi
Department of Bioengineering,
University of California,
San Diego, CA, USA
E-mail: lingyanshi@eng.ucsd.edu
Ma Hui
Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University
Shenzhen 518055, China
E-mail: mahui@tsinghua.edu.cn
