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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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

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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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JBO Hot Topics Webinar: Advances in Molecular Imaging in Small Animals

Speakers: Guosong Hong (Stanford University), Chongzhao Ran (Massachusetts General Hospital), and Scott Davis (Dartmouth College)

Host: Kenneth Tichauer (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Live event! 2 December 2024, 9am Pacific

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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
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