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Biophotonics(Feature Issue)

Editors:Jin U. Kang

Photonics Technology has made a significant impact on a wide range of medical and biomedical applications. These days, it is not uncommon to find several optical equipments in operating rooms and medical research laboratories. This wide and rapid acceptance of photonics technology in medicine is evidence of the usefulness of photonics technology in high resolution imaging, diagnostics, therapeutics, and to study various tissues and cells, just to name few applications. This focus issue is intended to highlight some of the biophotonics research areas with original contributions covering the many aspects of this field. The represented areas include confocal and nonlinear microscopy; fluorescence imaging; optical coherence tomography and applications; biomedical sensors and instruments; optical tissue and bio-marker characterization; light therapy; and image processing.

Topics:

Spectroscopy

Scattering

Other areas of optics

Optics at surfaces

Microscopy

Medical optics and biotechnology

	Innovative confocal laser method for exact dioptric power measurement of intraocular lens implants (Invited Paper) PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.876-878-3 Ilko K. Ilev, Robert W. Faaland, Do-Hyun Kim, Robert H. James, Don Calogero

	Two-photon imaging of lymphoma cells targeted by gold nanoparticles PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.879-881-3 Xiaochao Qu, Jing Wang, Cuiping Yao, Zhenxi Zhang

	Study of van Gieson's picrofuchsin staining on second-harmonic generation in type I collagen PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.882-885-4 Hanping Liu, Zhengfei Zhuang, Lingling Zhao, Junle Qu, Xiaoyuan Deng

	Improving depth resolution of diffuse optical tomography with an exponential adjustment method based on maximum singular value of layered sensitivity PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.886-888-3 Haijing Niu, Ping Guo, Xiaodong Song, Tianzi Jiang

	Experimental validation for time-domain fluorescence diffuse optical tomography of linear scheme PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.889-892-4 Feng Gao, Limin Zhang, Jiao Li, Huijuan Zhao

	A DR-WFOI fusion system for the real-time molecular imaging in vivo PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.893-895-3 Kun Bi, Xiaochun Xu, Lei Xi, Shaoqun Zeng, Qingming Luo

	Measurement of crater geometries after laser ablation of bone tissue with optical coherence tomography PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.896-898-3 Zhenlin Zhan, Xianzeng Zhang, Qing Ye, Shusen Xie

	Fiber-optic Fourier-domain common-path OCT PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.899-901-3 Xuan Liu, Xiaolu Li, Do-Hyun Kim, Ilko Ilev, Jin U. Kang

	Spectral calibration in spectral domain optical coherence tomography PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.902-904-3 Kai Wang, Zhihua Ding

	In vitro birefringence imaging with spectral domain polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.905-909-5 Qiang Gong, Chuanmao Fan, Fan Zhang, Jianquan Yao

	Simultaneous imaging and measurement of tensile stress on cornea by using a common-path optical coherence tomography system with an external contact reference PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.910-912-3 Utkarsh Sharma, Jin U. Kang

	Light intensity distribution of a new type of contact laser scalpel PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.913-915-3 Jin Fan, Kun Yang, Chuanqing Zhou, Xinyu Chai, Qiushi Ren

	Optical cavity coupled surface plasmon resonance sensing for enhanced sensitivity PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.916-918-3 Zheng Zheng, Xin Zhao, Jinsong Zhu, Jim Diamond

	Manipulation on human red blood cells with femtosecond optical tweezers PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.919-921-3 Ming Zhou, Haifeng Yang, Jianke Di, Enlan Zhao

	Static sensitivity calculation of a novel fiber optic biosensor PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.922-924-3 Zhongchen Bai, Shuijie Qin, Jing Li, Dashun Huang, Xin Zhang

	Investigation of biosensor built with photonic crystal microcavity PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.925-927-3 Xiaoling Wang, Naiguang Lü, Qiaofeng Tan, Guofan Jin

	Optically noninvasive measurement of the light transport properties of human meridians PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.928-931-4 Shusen Xie, Hongqin Yang, Zhouyi Guo, Hui Li, Songhao Liu

	Noninvasive determination of absorption coefficient and reduced scattering coefficient of human skin tissues in vivo with oblique-incidence reflectometry PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.932-934-3 Ping Sun, Yu Wang, Xiaoli Mo, Jinghui Xie

	Fast Monte Carlo inversion for extracting the optical properties of tubular tissues PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.935-937-3 Huijuan Zhao, Xiaoqing Zhou, Julan Liang, Shunqi Zhang

	Micro-Raman spectroscopy of single leukemic cells PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.938-940-3 Changmei Cai, Rong Chen, Juqiang Lin, Yongzeng Li, Shangyuan Feng

	A feasible method for comparing the power dependent photostability of fluorescent proteins PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.941-943-3 Jun Liu, Jun Chu, Hongyu Zhu, Lingling Xu, Zhihong Zhang, Shaoqun Zeng, Zhenli Huang

	Inactivation of bovine immunodeficiency virus by photodynamic therapy with HMME PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.944-946-3 Huijuan Yin, Yingxin Li, Zhaohui Zou, Wentao Qiao, Xue Yao, Yang Su, Hongyan Guo

	Investigation of photodynamic therapy on streptococcus mutans of oral biofilm PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.947-949-3 Zhaohui Zou, Ping Gao, Huijuan Yin, Yingxin Li

	Rapid and robust medical image elastic registration using mean shift algorithm PDF Chin. Opt. Lett., 2008, 06(12): pp.950-952-3 Xuan Yang, Jihong Pei