About this Research Topic
In the context of optics and photonics, nanotechnology involves the design and fabrication of nanoscale optical elements, such as metamaterials, metasurfaces, and nanoparticles on platforms such as wafers or fiber facets. Optical biological imaging and medical imaging involve various imaging modalities, such as white-light endoscopy, fluorescent imaging, multiphoton microscopy, super-resolution imaging, etc. to study biological samples and medical conditions.
This Research Topic is interested to explore the development at the interface of optical nanotechnology and bio-optical imaging. The combination of the merits of these two areas gives exciting potential for device miniaturization and discoveries of new phenomena.
For many optically based biological and medical devices, their bulk footprint and heavy physical weight have limited their usage in clinical settings. One of the bottlenecks is the large footprint of conventional optical components, such as lens assemblies and spectrometers. There are also limitations in the performance of optical components, for example, spherical lenses suffer from spherical aberrations which greatly impact the imaging quality and require often additional corrective optics.
Nanotechnology can play a significant role in solving these challenges because it enables the realization of nanoscale elements to be integrated with existing imaging devices and systems. On the other hand, biological and medical imaging applications also pose challenges to nanotechnology in terms of design and fabrication requirements and constraints.
The aim of the current Research Topic is to cover promising, recent, and novel research trends in the fields of nanotechnology and bio-optical imaging. This Research Topic welcomes review articles and original research submissions reporting simulation and/or experiment results.
Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• Metamaterials, metasurfaces for bio-optical imaging applications
• Nanostructured fibers for bio-optical imaging applications
• Nanoscale optics and photonics for bioimaging
• Optical tweezers
• Plasmonics
• Nanoparticle applications in Imaging
• Cancer diagnosis
• Multimodal imaging
• Advanced image analysis techniques
• Quantum imaging
• Phase imaging
This Research Topic is interested to explore the development at the interface of optical nanotechnology and bio-optical imaging. The combination of the merits of these two areas gives exciting potential for device miniaturization and discoveries of new phenomena.
For many optically based biological and medical devices, their bulk footprint and heavy physical weight have limited their usage in clinical settings. One of the bottlenecks is the large footprint of conventional optical components, such as lens assemblies and spectrometers. There are also limitations in the performance of optical components, for example, spherical lenses suffer from spherical aberrations which greatly impact the imaging quality and require often additional corrective optics.
Nanotechnology can play a significant role in solving these challenges because it enables the realization of nanoscale elements to be integrated with existing imaging devices and systems. On the other hand, biological and medical imaging applications also pose challenges to nanotechnology in terms of design and fabrication requirements and constraints.
The aim of the current Research Topic is to cover promising, recent, and novel research trends in the fields of nanotechnology and bio-optical imaging. This Research Topic welcomes review articles and original research submissions reporting simulation and/or experiment results.
Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• Metamaterials, metasurfaces for bio-optical imaging applications
• Nanostructured fibers for bio-optical imaging applications
• Nanoscale optics and photonics for bioimaging
• Optical tweezers
• Plasmonics
• Nanoparticle applications in Imaging
• Cancer diagnosis
• Multimodal imaging
• Advanced image analysis techniques
• Quantum imaging
• Phase imaging
Keywords: bioimaging, medical imaging, optics, quantum imaging, multimodal imaging, cancer diagnosis
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