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.

Quantitative real-time optical imaging of the tissue metabolic rate of oxygen consumption
Michael T. Ghijsen et al.
Special Section on Selected Topics in Biophotonics: Optogenetics and Label-Free Optical Spectroscopy
Guest Editors: Stefan Andersson-Engels and Peter E. Andersen
Special Section on Topical Problems of Biophotonics: from Optical Bioimaging to Clinical Biophotonics
Guest Editors: Mikhail Kirillin, Kirill Larin, Ilya Turchin, and Valery Tuchin
April 2018
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Label-free optical imaging technologies for rapid translation and use during intraoperative surgical and tumor margin assessment
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Age-related morphological changes of the dermal matrix in human skin documented in vivo by multiphoton microscopy
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