Call for Papers

Special Issue on Polarization of Light in Biomedical Applications

The use of polarization of light in biomedical applications is an emerging research area with significant progress achieved in the recent years. Recent progress in using polarized light in biomedical applications is attracting high interests both in academy and industry. The development and clinical implementation of polarization-based optical imaging and diagnostic modalities, as well as translation of technologies developed in the neighbour fields, e.g. ellipsometry, astrophysics, photo-elastography, and other, to the needs of biomedicine provides more opportunities to healthcare professionals and extends significantly the diagnostic toolkit.

The aim of this special issue is to highlight the most recent work and developments in the field of Polarized Light in Biomedical Applications, including fundamental, clinical and pre-clinical studies, as well as the results of new explorations related to the use of polarized light in life sciences and for health care needs. Research papers, review articles, short communications and clinical case studies are very welcomed to be submitted and highly appreciated. All manuscripts will be internationally peer-reviewed. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include, but are not limited to the following:

PROPERTIES OF TISSUES

Tissue scattering and depolarization

Tissue birefringence, diattenuation, Poincare sphere

Imaging of polarization properties

Validation of polarimetric approaches

Orbital Angular Momentum and tissue interaction

NOVEL POLARIMETRIC TECHNIQUES AND METHODS

Mueller-Stokes polarimetry

Polarized light microscopy

Polarized light endoscopy

Polarization-based fluorescence imaging

Circular dichroism

Shaped light with Orbital Angular Momentum

Higher order Poincare sphere, generalized Mueller matrix formalism

Interaction of spin and orbital angular momentum of light

Topological states and scattering

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF POLARIZED LIGHT

Reproductive medicine

Ophthalmology

Neurosurgery

Gastroenterology

Cardiac

Dermatology.

Submission deadline: May 1, 2022

Planned publication date: November 1, 2022

Submission format

Authors should use the Latex or MS-Word style files. For more details, please visit https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jiohs

JIOHS is indexed by SCIE (IF 1.770, JCR 2020). JIOHS has been a fully open-access journal since 2013.

Feature Editors:

Igor Meglinski

College of Engineering and Physical Science

Aston University

Birmingham B4 7ET, UK

E-mail: i.meglinski@aston.ac.uk

Lingyan Shi

Department of Bioengineering,

University of California,

San Diego, CA, USA

E-mail: lingyanshi@eng.ucsd.edu

Ma Hui

Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University

Shenzhen 518055, China

E-mail: mahui@tsinghua.edu.cn