
The journal scope encompasses theoretical modeling and simulations, technology development, biomedical studies and clinical applications. Please note that this scope is somewhat broader than that of OSA's other journals, in that innovation in the applications, as well as the development, of biophotonic technologies are welcome. Topics to be featured in the journal include many familiar to those in the active community of authors and readers who have benefitted from the consistently high quality of OSA journals for years, including:

 Tissue optics and spectroscopy  Laser interactions with and manipulation of molecules, cells and tissues  Novel microscopies  Optical coherence tomography  Diffuse optical tomography  Photoacoustic and multimodal imaging  Molecular imaging and probe development  Optical therapies  Biosensing  Optical biophysics  Nanobiophotonics  Photobiology  Microfluidic optical devices  Image reconstruction  Vision research

In addition, we also hope to attract new papers to the journal in areas such as optical biophysics and photobiology, optical biotechnology, and other emerging areas. Papers in many of these areas are included in this inaugural issue.

We are honored to have assembled a distinguished international group of leaders in biomedical optics to serve on complementary advisory and associate editorial boards (see journal masthead). The advisory board will help guide the journal's editorial direction and scope. The associate editorial board is dedicated to managing the challenging task of conducting expert and timely peer review of all submitted manuscripts.

Due to the tremendous response we have received since opening the journal for submissions in May, we have advanced the publication date of this inaugural issue to August 2. Consistent with the journal's goal of rapid publication, all papers will be published online soon after acceptance on the journal's forthcoming page, and then included in the next available monthly issue. Depending upon the number of contributions, feature issues may accumulate papers over several months, during which they will also be available on the feature issue collections page. Invited and review papers will also be included in the journal.

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