JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS Peer-Reviewed Journal     Premier Issue: January 1996 Published by SPIE in cooperation with the Biomedical Optics Society

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Editor-in-Chief

Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D.	Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic Biomedical Engineering Center University of California, Irvine 1002 Health Sciences Road East Irvine, CA 92612 USA Phone: 949-824-8367 Fax: 949-824-6969 E-mail: jbo@laser.bli.uci.edu
Editors
Britton Chance, Ph.D.	University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Joseph R. Lakowicz, Ph.D.	University of Maryland School of Medicine (USA)
Gerhard J. Müller, Ph.D.	Laser-Medizin-Zentrum (Germany)
John A. Parrish, M.D.	Wellman Labs., Harvard Medical School (USA)
Recent growth in the use of optics technology for biomedical research and health care has been explosive. New applications are made possible by emerging technologies in lasers, optoelectronic devices, fiber optics, physical and chemical sensors, and imaging - all of which are being applied to medical research, diagnostics, and therapy. The Journal of Biomedical Optics is intended to be the repository for peer-reviewed papers that utilize modern optical technology for improved health care and biomedical research. Topics suitable for the Journal of Biomedical Optics include the following:
Medical and biological imaging instrumentation and techniques Noninvasive physiological monitoring Laser-tissue interactions and dosimetry Laser diagnostic and laser therapeutic methods, instruments, and systems Ophthalmic instruments, systems, implants, and clinical applications Optical biosensors Ultrasensitive detection and optical clinical chemistry Optical tomography and photon migration Endoscopic systems and applications Biospectroscopy and optoelectronic instrumentation Fiber optic sensors, instrumentation, and techniques Optical and structural microscopy Applications of optical systems and technologies to biology and medicine.
The Journal will also publish brief reviews of rapidly emerging topics or articles of general interest to our scientific community, and will also consider issues of technology transfer, market projections, and ethics - all of which affect the eventual use of new research capabilities or products. Short reports and letters will also be accepted. Office of the Managing Editor S P I E 1000 20th Street Bellingham, WA 98225 (360)676-3290/Fax (360)647-1445/E-mail: journals@spie.org
We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Biomedical Optics has recently been selected for inclusion in the U.S. National Library of Medicine's Index Medicus/MEDLINE. Coverage of JBO in MEDLINE will be retroactive to the January 2000 issue, Volume 5, Number 1. More information, on Journal of Biomedical Optics Scope page. Get abstracts from past Journal issues on SPIE.org.