News item: IEEE call for papers for special Biophotonics issue - Aug 1, 2009 deadline

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics invites manuscript submissions in the area of biophotonics. The purpose of this issue of JSTQE is to highlight the recent progress and trends in developing of novel biophotonics technologies. Broad technical areas include (but are not limited to):
► Advanced biophotonics diagnostic methods and systems
 Ultrahigh-resolution biophotonics imaging including cellular/intracellular, molecular, 3D endoscopic, translational clinical, photoacoustic, photothermal, diffuse, improved OCT, confocal and multi-photon in-vivo bioimaging
 Spectroscopy-based diagnostics including fluorescence, Raman, elastic scattering, evanescence-wave, near-/mid-IR spectroscopy
 Novel biophotonics sensing techniques
 Multi-modal biophotonics diagnostics
► Progress in minimally-invasive biophotonics therapeutic techniques
 Photodynamic cancer therapy
 Ultrashort pulse laser tissue treatment
 Precise laser tissue manipulation/ablation in ophthalmology, dentistry, dermatology, cardiology and neurosurgery
 Novel low-level laser therapeutic techniques and light-tissue-interaction mechanisms at cellular/intracellular level
 Light-assisted neuron stimulation/growth and cellular/tissue repair
► Novel approaches in nanobiophotonics
 Breaking the diffraction barrier in biophotonics nanoimaging
 Cellular/intracellular nanobiosensors
 Nanoparticle-enhanced biophotonics diagnostics/therapeutics
 Novel nanobiomaterials engineered for nanobiphotonics applications
 Biocompatibility and phototoxicity of novel nanobiomaterials
► Development of novel laser, fiber-optic and electro-optic biophotonics tools and devices