Feature Issue of Biomedical Optics Express

30 Years of Optical Coherence Tomography

Submission Opens:28 November 2022

Submission Deadline: 30 April 2023

Biomedical Optics Express welcomes submissions to a feature issue, "30 Years of Optical Coherence Tomography." Since its first appearance more than 30 years ago, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has undergone multiple generations of rapid technology development and has become a standard-of-care diagnostic technology in several medical specialties. Many of these developments were first described in Optica journals and meetings.

Submissions of contributed original papers describing novel technology development and applications are particularly encouraged. The issue will also include invited review papers summarizing progress in particular sub-fields of technology and applications of OCT and invited research papers on hot topics in current OCT research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • New light sources and other OCT system component technologies
  • New OCT system designs and implementations
  • New contrasting schemes including exogenous, endogenous, as well as pure software-based methods
  • Progress in OCT image processing, visualization and interpretation
  • Artificial Intelligence applied to OCT
  • Data management of high speed 3-and 4-dimensional OCT applications
  • Functional imaging extensions of OCT, including OCT angiography, OCT elastography, or dynamic OCT
  • Pre-clinical studies and applications of OCT in biological applications and animal models or organoids
  • Technologies enabling clinical translation of OCT in ophthalmology, cardiology, and other medical disciplines
  • Multimodal combination of OCT and complementary imaging and sensing methods
  • Existing or proposed standards for conducting and reporting OCT-related research
  • Analysis and meta-analyses of the research, clinical, and economic impact of OCT technology

All submissions need to present original, previously unpublished work and will be subject to the normal standards and peer review processes of the journal. The standard Biomedical Optics Express Article Processing Charges will apply to all published articles.

Please prepare manuscripts according to the author instructions for submission to Biomedical Optics Express and submit through the Prism electronic submission system, specifying from the drop-down menu that the manuscript is for the feature issue on 30 Years of OCT.

Feature Editors

Rainer A. Leitgeb, Medical University of Vienna, Austria (Lead Editor)

Brett Bouma, Wellman Center of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA

Kate Grieve, Quinze Vingts Hospital and Vision Institute, France

Christine Hendon, Columbia University, USA

Adrian Podoleanu, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

Maciej Wojtkowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Yoshiaki Yasuno, University of Tsukuba, Japan