Journal of Biomedical Optics

Editor-in-Chief: Brian W. Pogue, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA

Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) is a Gold Open Access journal that publishes peer-reviewed papers on the use of novel optical systems and techniques for improved health care and biomedical research.

On the cover: Multimodal fluorescence and phase imaging of a HeLa cell under a commercially available confocal microscope without any modification of optics (from the article "Transport-of-intensity phase imaging using commercially available confocal microscope" by N. Yoneda et al., in Volume 29 Issue 11)

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Featured Content

Two-color fluorescence-guided surgery for head and neck cancer resections

Dani A. Szafran-Reeder, Nourhan A. Shams, Antonio Montaño, Syed Zaki Husain Rizvi, Adam W.G. Alani, Kimberley S. Samkoe, Lei G. Wang, and Summer L. Gibbs

Hyperspectral imaging in neurosurgery: a review of systems, computational methods, and clinical applications

Alankar Kotwal, Vishwanath Saragadam, Joshua D. Bernstock, Alfredo Sandoval, Ashok Veeraraghavan, and Pablo A. Valdés

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Previously Published Special Sections

From the Journal of Biomedical Optics


Special Issue on Molecular Guided Surgery (in progress, 2025)

Editors: Summer Gibbs, Sylvain Gioux, and Brian W. Pogue


Special Issue on Pulse Oximetry: 50 Years of Inventions and Discoveries in Biomedical Optics (in progress)

Editors: Jana M. Kainerstorfer, Kenneth M. Tichauer, Ton van Leeuwen, Arjun G. Yodh, and Brian W. Pogue


Special Section on Hyperspectral Imaging (in progress; Part 1, September 2024)

Editors: Baowei Fei, Jeeseong Hwang, and Matija Milanič


Special Issue Honoring Gabriel Popescu, Pioneer in Biomedical Optics (in progress)

Editors: Randy A. Bartels, Stephen A. Boppart, and Kevin W. Eliceiri


Special Issue Honoring Lihong V. Wang, Pioneer in Biomedical Optics (2024)

Editors: Xueding Wang, Mark Anastasio, Hao Zhang, Sava Sakadzic, Song Hu, and Liang Gao


Polarimetry in Biomedical Optics, Part 2

Editors: Alex Vitkin, Nirmalya Gosh, and Jessica C. Ramella-Roman


Selected Topics in Biophotonics: Translating Novel Photonics Technology into Clinical Applications (December 2023)

Editors: Stefan Andersson-Engels and Peter E. Andersen


Polarimetry in Biomedical Optics, Part 1 (October 2023)

Editors: Alex Vitkin, Nirmalya Gosh, and Jessica C. Ramella-Roman


Short Wave Infrared Techniques and Applications in Biomedical Optics (September 2023)

Editors: Daniel Fried, Mark Pierce, and Darren Roblyer


Seeing Inside Tissue with Optical Molecular Probes (August 2023)

Editors: Nada Boustany, Mark Niedre, and Manojit Pramanik


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Journal Details/Metrics:

  • ISSN: 1560-2281
  • CiteScore 2023: 6.4
  • Impact Factor:* 3.0 

      * Source: Clarivate Analytics, Journal Citation Reports (2024)

Author Benefits:

  • Rigorous, prompt peer review (median time from submission to first decision: 27 days)
  • Rapid publication of articles (median time from acceptance to publication: 22 days)
  • Professional copyediting and typesetting
  • Immediate gold open access for all published papers 
  • Articles deposited into PubMed Central at no charge
  • Integration with Code Ocean, a cloud-based code development and publishing platform
  • 5 free downloads from the SPIE Digital Library

 


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