Contributed papers are solicited on, but not limited to, all areas of development and pre-clinical or clinical application of optical spectroscopy and imaging, including steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence, autofluorescence, linear and nonlinear microscopies, linear and nonlinear Raman, NIR, polarization, laser speckle, back-reflectance, light scattering spectroscopy, and combined approaches (multimodal imaging):
A. Biomedical and clinical applications

• in vivo diagnostics and physiological monitoring (structural and functional spectral imaging of cells, tissues, organs), including endoscopic, noninvasive and minimally invasive methods

• tissue pathology and tissue characterization

• spectral biomarker analysis

• spectroscopic micro- and nanosensors

• biochip technology for point-of-care diagnostics

• guidance and monitoring of therapies

• diagnostics and tissue engineering.

B. Investigation of cellular and sub-cellular processes

• analysis of cell dynamics by single-molecule techniques

• high spatial resolution microscopy

• structural analysis of cells and tissues on the nano-to-microscale

• cellular metabolic sensing and imaging

• biomarker discovery for spectroscopic techniques.