Biophotonics feature: introduction

Paul Campagnola; Daniel Cote; Francesco Pavone; Peter Reece; Vivek J Srinivasan; Tomasz Tkaczyk; Giovanni Volpe

doi:10.1364/BOE.9.001229

Biophotonics feature: introduction

Biomed Opt Express. 2018 Feb 20;9(3):1229-1231. doi: 10.1364/BOE.9.001229. eCollection 2018 Mar 1.

Authors

Paul Campagnola¹, Daniel Cote², Francesco Pavone³, Peter Reece⁴, Vivek J Srinivasan⁵, Tomasz Tkaczyk⁶, Giovanni Volpe⁷

Affiliations

¹ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Biomedical Engineering Department, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
² Centre de Recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1J2G3, Canada.
³ European Lab for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Via Nello Carrara 1, Polo Scientifico, 50019 Sesto, Fiorentino, Italy.
⁴ University of New South Wales, School of Physics, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia.
⁵ University of California Davis, Department of Biomedical Engineering, 451 E Health Sciences Drive, GBSF, Davis, CA 95616-5270, USA.
⁶ Rice University, Department of Bioengineering, MS 142, 6500 Main Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
⁷ Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden.

Abstract

We introduce the feature issue on the Optics in the Life Sciences Congress held on April 2-5, 2017 in San Diego, CA. The Congress consisted of 5 topical symposia: (i) Bio-optics Design and Application; (ii) Novel Techniques in Microscopy; (iii) Optical Molecular Probes, Imaging and Drug Delivery; (iv) Optical Trapping Applications; and (v) Optics and the Brain. These separate symposia also held joint sessions of common interest. The following highlights some of the topics from the Congress.

Keywords: (090.0090) Holography; (110.4500) Optical coherence tomography; (170.0170) Medical optics and biotechnology; (180.0180) Microscopy; (300.0300) Spectroscopy.