Molecular and Functional Optical Imaging for Disease Diagnosis and Therapy Monitoring

A special issue of Journal of Imaging (ISSN 2313-433X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 February 2018)

Special Issue Editors

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wright State University, 207 Russ Engineering Center, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy., Dayton, OH 45435, USA
Interests: diffuse optical imaging; biomedical optics; fluorescence imaging; photoacoustic imaging; imaging-guided intervention; optical imaging biomarkers; light therapy; photodynamic therapy; therapy response monitoring; optical blood flow and oxygenation
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Biomedical Engineering department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th street, JEC 7036, Troy, NY 12180, USA
Interests: optical imaging; biophotonics; optical inverse problem; multimodal imaging; fluorescence imaging; functional imaging; time-resolved imaging; Monte Carlo; compressive sensing; lifetime sensing

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Optical imaging has greatly impacted medicine by facilitating the early detection and staging of diseases, by guiding the development and selection of personalized treatment, and by offering efficient therapeutic modalities. Among the wide range of optical imaging approaches, diffuse optical imaging, which encompasses mesoscopic and macroscopic imaging techniques, is emerging as a powerful non-invasive modality for functional and molecular imaging of intact specimens. The success of diffuse optical imaging relies on the integration of dedicated instrumentation with refined data processing techniques to fulfil unmet clinical and preclinical needs.

The aims and scope of this Special Issue are to provide a novel strong and established source of information to introduce non-optical imaging experts to this field and its application; to review and share recent developments in novel functional and molecular imaging techniques; and to demonstrate the clinical potential of optical imaging. We invite investigators to contribute original research articles that will stimulate the continuing translational efforts to bring diffuse optical imaging from the bench to the bedside. We are particularly interested in articles describing new instrumental or computational/software approaches and/or applications in clinical and preclinical settings.

This Special Issue is primarily focused on the following topics However we encourage all submissions related to diffuse optical imaging:

  • Development and validation of new imaging instrumentation/approaches.
  • Development of new reconstruction algorithms and data processing techniques for diffuse optical imaging.
  • Functional, Molecular and structural diffuse optical imaging.
  • Devices and methods to guide therapeutic intervention.
  • Multimodal imaging integrating structural, molecular and functional information.
  • Multiphysics imaging including photo-acoustics, acousto-optics, etc.
  • 2D, 3D, 4D, tomographic and/or multi-spectral imaging.
  • Clinical and pre-clinical applications of the techniques (breast, brain, guided surgery, etc.).

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ulas Sunar
Prof. Dr. Xavier Intes
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Optical imaging
  • Biophotonics
  • Biomedical optics
  • Optical inverse problem
  • Multimodal imaging
  • Fluorescence imaging
  • Photoacoustic imaging
  • Functional imaging
  • Time-resolved imaging
  • Monte Carlo
  • Compressive sensing
  • Lifetime sensing
  • Imaging-guided intervention
  • Biomarkers
  • Light therapy
  • Photodynamic therapy
  • Therapy response monitoring
  • Optical blood flow and oxygenation

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Cerebral Hemodynamic Influences in Task-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Acute Sport-Related Concussion: A Review
by Mario Forcione, Claudio Colonnese and Antonio Belli
J. Imaging 2018, 4(4), 59; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging4040059 - 17 Apr 2018
Cited by 10 | Viewed by 5940
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One of the challenges of managing athletes with sport-related concussion (SRC) is guiding them to a safe return to play. A potential biomarker for use in the clinical assessment of recovery is the analysis of brain activation patterns during task-related functional Magnetic Resonance [...] Read more.
One of the challenges of managing athletes with sport-related concussion (SRC) is guiding them to a safe return to play. A potential biomarker for use in the clinical assessment of recovery is the analysis of brain activation patterns during task-related functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). However, fMRI studies have provided conflicting results regarding what is pathological. An element that can contribute to this disagreement are hemodynamic impairments of the brain that follow a concussion. A functional neuroimaging technique based on the optical properties of brain tissue—called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)—can be used to evaluate SRC athletes, partially taking into consideration these brain hemodynamic impairments. However, so far, fNIRS has not been extensively used in concussion. In this critical review, there is a description of the main fMRI results involving the neocortex in acutely concussed patients, the influences of hemodynamic impairments on fMRI and fNIRS and the advantages and disadvantages of fNIRS to limit this influence. Full article
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