BioPhotonics and biosensors
Chairs
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Francesca Bragheri |
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Gilles Tessier |
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Kristin Grußmayer |
Synopsis
Optical sensing, characterization, and imaging systems are finding more and more applications in life sciences, a field coined as biophotonics. From biology to pharmaceutics and medicine, a broad range of imaging techniques can now probe biomolecules, cells and tissues with unprecedented resolution, sensitivity and specificity in vitro but also deep inside living organisms or even human patients; at the same time biosensing techniques, both label- and label-free based, are offering promising solutions for a rapid and accurate detection of biomarkers and analytes strongly correlated to specific pathologies.
This TOM aims at bringing together researchers working on the applications of optics in life sciences, from fundamental biology to clinical applications.
Topics
- Tissue optics and spectroscopy
- Advanced Microscopy Techniques (3D, superresolution, multiphoton,...)
- Optical coherence tomography
- Phase imaging
- In-depth imaging: endoscopy, aberration correction, and deep tissue imaging
- Integrated devices for biomedicine
- Optical tweezers
- Optical biosensing
- Optical sensors and actuators for biomedical applications
- Optical POCT
- Photonic techniques in (pre-)clinical studies