Optica Publishing Group publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in its portfolio of journals, which serve the full breadth of the optics and photonics community.
Biomedical Optics Express (BOEx) is Optica Publishing Group's principal outlet for serving the biomedical optics community with peer-reviewed papers related to optics, photonics and optical imaging in biomedicine. BOEx offers rapid time-to-publication, an interactive online interface and open access.
The journal's scope encompasses fundamental research, technology development, biomedical studies and clinical applications. BOEx focuses on the leading edge topics in the field, including:
- Tissue optics and spectroscopy
- Novel microscopies
- Optical coherence tomography
- Diffuse and fluorescence tomography
- Photoacoustic and multimodal imaging
- Molecular imaging and therapies
- Nanophotonic biosensing
- Optical biophysics/photobiology
- Microfluidic optical devices
- Vision research
BOEx considers original research articles, feature issue contributions, invited reviews, and comments on published articles.
Submission Information
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Authors benefit from:
- Rapid review, from submission to publication averaging less than 77 days and acceptance to online publication within 7 days.
- Affiliation with a leading international optics society that publishes the most-cited journals in optics.
- Content distributed broadly through major abstract/index services such as Web of Science, Google Scholar, and PubMed.
- PubMed Central deposit of all BOEx articles following publication. BOEx articles assigned both PubMed and PubMed Central IDs and are fully searchable in both systems.
- Visibility within our platform and Optics ImageBank searchable graphics repository.
Please see the Author Resource Center page for instructions to prepare and submit a manuscript.
SubmitKey Journal Metrics
Impact Factor: 3.732*
Immediacy Index: 0.948*
Google Scholar h5-index: 60†
Median Time to Publication: 82 days
*Source: 2021 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate, 2021).
†2021 Google Scholar Optics & Photonics Top Publications.
For more information on Journal metrics, click here.
Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Ruikang (Ricky) WangUniversity of Washington, USA

Deputy Editor
Sina Farsiu,Duke University, USA
Advisory Editors
Gregory W. Faris, SRI International, USA (Founding Deputy Editor)James Fujimoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Adam Gibson, University College London, UK (past Deputy Editor)
Min Gu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Stefan Hell, Max-Planck-Inst Biophysikalische Chemie, Germany
Christoph Hitzenberger, Medizinische Universität Wien, Austria (past Editor-in-Chief)
Joseph A. Izatt, Duke University, USA (Founding Editor-in-Chief)
Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum, Rice University, USA
Eva M. Sevick-Muraca, UT Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Alfred Vogel, University of Lübeck, Germany
David Williams, University of Rochester, USA
Arjun Yodh, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Associate Editors
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Kamran Avanaki |
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Linda Lundström |
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Kostadinka Bizheva |
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Shuichi Makita |
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Audrey Bowden |
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Igor Meglinski |
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Regine Choe |
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Ioan Notingher |
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Adrien E. Desjardins |
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Thomas O'Sullivan |
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Christopher Dunsby |
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Junle Qu |
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Adam Eggebrecht |
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Ramkumar Sabesan |
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Pietro Ferraro |
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Marinko Sarunic |
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Feng Gao |
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Nicholas Smith |
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Kate Grieve |
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Ronald Sroka |
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Roarke Horstmeyer |
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Vincent Wallace |
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Yali Jia |
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Jun Xia |
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Brendan Kennedy |
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Xincheng Yao |
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Peter Kner |
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Dvir Yelin |
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Santosh Kumar |
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Filiz Yesilkoy |
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Peng Li |
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Guoan Zheng |
Staff
Editorial and Production | Phone | |
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Nicole Williams-Jones, Journal Coordinator | boemss@optica.org | 202-416-1969 |
Feature proposals | dmcdonold@optica.org | |
Sarah J. Walker, Managing Editor | swalker@optica.org | 202-416-1482 |
Lynne Sturtz, Electronic Production Editor | ||
Article Processing Charges | billing@optica.org | |
General Information |
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Copyright Permission Requests | copyright@optica.org | |
Online Journal Technical Support | elec@optica.org | |
Elizabeth Nolan, Chief Publishing Officer | ||
Kelly Cohen, Sr. Publisher | ||
M. Scott Dineen, Senior Director, Publishing, Production & Technology | ||
Jennifer Mayfield, Deputy Senior Director, Electronic Publications | ||
Timothy Fincham, Associate Director, Production & Technology | ||
Dan McDonold, Editorial Director |