Editor-in-Chief: Brian W. Pogue, Dartmouth College
The Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) publishes peer-reviewed papers on the use of novel optical systems and techniques for improved health care and biomedical research.
Announcement: JBO will become a fully open access journal in January 2019. Beginning with submissions received on or after 1 July 2018, authors of accepted papers are required to pay an article processing charge of $1675. Discounts may apply. Click here for more details.

Perspective review on solid-organ transplant: needs in point-of-care optical biomarkers
Daqing Piao et al.
Special Section on Laser-Tissue Interaction and Optical Properties of Biological Tissues: Honoring Prof. Steven Jacques, a Pioneer in Biomedical Optics
Guest Editors: Jessica Ramella-Roman, Andreas Hielscher, and Lihong V. Wang
Special Section on Topical Problems of Biophotonics: from Optical Bioimaging to Clinical Biophotonics
Guest Editors: Mikhail Kirillin, Kirill Larin, Ilya Turchin, and Valery Tuchin
September 2018
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In-vivo Raman spectroscopy: from basics to applications
Eliana Cordero, Ines Latka, Christian Matthäus, Iwan W. Schie, Jürgen Popp (2018)
Needle-based optical coherence tomography for the detection of prostate cancer: a visual and quantitative analysis in 20 patients
Berrend G. Muller et al. (2018)
Polarized light interaction with tissues
Valery V. Tuchin (2016)
Tutorial on photoacoustic tomography
Yong Zhou, Junjie Yao, Lihong V. Wang (2016)
High-performance, robustly verified Monte Carlo simulation with FullMonte
Jeffrey Cassidy, Ali Nouri, Vaughn Betz, Lothar Lilge (2018)
Optical spectroscopic sensing of tumor hypoxia
Sina Dadgar, Joel Rodríguez Troncoso, Narasimhan Rajaram (2018)
Review of fluorescence guided surgery systems: identification of key performance capabilities beyond indocyanine green imaging
Alisha V. DSouza, Huiyun Lin, Eric R. Henderson, Kimberley S. Samkoe, Brian W. Pogue (2016)
Through-focus or volumetric type of optical imaging methods: a review
Ravikiran Attota (2018)
Review on near-infrared heptamethine cyanine dyes as theranostic agents for tumor imaging, targeting, and photodynamic therapy
Changhong Shi, Jason B. Wu, Dongfeng Pan (2016)
Visible-light optical coherence tomography: a review
Xiao Shu, Lisa Jane Beckmann, Hao F. Zhang (2017)
Video introduction to the journal
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