Special issue of

Journal of Biomedical Photonics & Engineering,

2024 (Vol. 10, No. 3)

Advanced Technologies in Biophotonics: 

The 80th Anniversary of Professor Valery Tuchin

Special issue Editors:

Prof. Elina A. Genina  

Department of Optics and Biophotonics

Saratov State University

Saratov, Russia

E-mail: eagenina@yandex.ru

Prof. Dan Zhu  

Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics–MoE Key Laboratory for Biomedical Photonics

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Wuhan, P. R. China

E-mail: dawnzh@mail.hust.edu.cn

Prof. Valery P. Zakharov  

Department of Laser and Biotechnical Systems

Samara National Research University

Samara, Russia

E-mail: zakharov@ssau.ru

Call for Papers:

On February 4, 2024, Valery V. Tuchin turned 80 years old. He is a Doctor of Sciences, professor, head of the Optics and Biophotonics Department of the Physical Institute of Saratov University, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, author of fundamental world-class scientific works in the field of biophotonics, winner of numerous prizes in the field of science, a brilliant scientist, an outstanding teacher and just a wonderful person. Congratulations to Valery Viktorovich Tuchin on his anniversary and wish him good health, creative inspiration and great success in his multifaceted activities! We invite colleagues, students and anyone else who would like to contribute to this special issue dedicated to Valery. 

The following topics are welcome, but are not limited to this special issue: 

• Photon migration in tissues
• Diffusion wave and correlation spectroscopy of tissues
• Spectrophotometry, fluorescence, nonlinear and Raman spectroscopy of tissues
• Static and dynamic light scattering in tissues
• Coherent optical methods for medical diagnostics
• Cell and tissue coherent microscopy
• Optical diffusion and coherent medical topography and tomography
• Laser Doppler measuring systems for medicine and biology
• Full field speckle-correlation biomedical techniques
• Optical techniques of biovibrations measurements
• Optical polarimetric methods for study of tissues and cell structures
• Photothermal and photoacoustic methods for tissue diagnostics
• Optical biopsy
• Optical microelastography of tissues
• Osmotic effects and optical monitoring of matter diffusion in tissues
• Tissue and blood optical clearing
• Optical glucose sensing
• Laser and optical technologies in microbiology
• Tissue phantoms designing
• Photochemical, photothermal and photobiological effects, mechanisms of phototherapy
• High energy laser interactions with cells and tissues, laser surgery techniques
• Lasers and optical technologies in dermatology, ophthalmology, gynecology, cardiology, dentistry, etc
• Microchannel and photonic crystal technologies in biology and medicine
• Biosensors

JBPE is a peer-reviewed open accessed journal and serves as an international forum for the publication of the latest developments in all areas of photonics for biology, medicine, and biomedical engineering. JBPE provides a vehicle to help professionals, graduates, engineers, academics and researchers working in the field of intelligent photonics in biomedicine and engineering to disseminate information on the state-of-the-art technique. JBPE can be accessed via http://jbpe.ssau.ru

Manuscripts due date September 1, 2024