Molecular and Functional Optical Imaging for Disease Diagnosis and Therapy Monitoring

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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