Fiber Optic Sensors in Biomedical Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Fiber optic sensors (FOSs) have undergone a substantial expansion through their decades of history, attracting a growing interest in the biomedical field to monitor various physical and chemical parameters. Compared to more mainstream sensing technologies, FOSs offer a wide range of benefits, including low cost, immunity to electromagnetic interference, lightweight and compactness, chemical inertness, remote operation, and biocompatibility, which enable new opportunities for biomedical purposes. Thanks to these characteristics, FOSs can be easily embedded inside medical needles and catheters, integrated within surgical instruments and robotic component, and employed during magnetic resonance, computed tomography, and other procedures which rely on high-intensity electromagnetic fields.

This Special Issue welcomes papers covering the latest developments and trends in fiber optic sensors in biomedicine and healthcare. We warmly invite researchers to submit original research papers, communications, and review articles dealing with the recent advances, open challenges, and future perspectives in this field.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Fiber-optic-based sensors, biosensors, and wearables for healthcare applications;
• Non-invasive and minimally invasive monitoring techniques based on fiber optic sensors for biomedical purposes;
• Fiber optic sensors in therapy and diagnosis;
• Embedding and packaging of fiber optic sensors in biomedicine;
• Integration of nanomaterials with fiber-optic-based systems;
• Optical sensors validation in ex vivo and in vivo experimental studies;
• Development of fiber-optic-based techniques or instrumentation for healthcare;
• Numerical versus experimental comparisons;
• Medical devices based on optical sensors;
• Post-processing of fiber optic sensor data and use of machine learning algorithms.

Dr. Elena De Vita
Prof. Dr. Agostino Iadicicco
Prof. Dr. Stefania Campopiano
Guest Editors

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• fiber optic sensors
• wearable biomedical sensors
• fiber optic biosensors
• healthcare monitoring
• fiber optic clinical applications
• minimally invasive therapies
• embedding strategies