TY - JOUR
T1 - Biophotonics
T2 - The big picture
AU - Marcu, Laura
AU - Boppart, Stephen A.
AU - Hutchinson, Mark R.
AU - Popp, Jürgen
AU - Wilson, Brian C.
N1 - Funding Information:
aUniversity of California, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery, Davis, California, United States bUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Urbana, Illinois, United States cUniversity of Adelaide, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics, Adelaide, Australia dFriedrich-Schiller University Jena, Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Jena, Germany eLeibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany fUniversity of Toronto, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biophysics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).
PY - 2018/2
Y1 - 2018/2
N2 - The 5th International Conference on Biophotonics (ICOB) held April 30 to May 1, 2017, in Fremantle, Western Australia, brought together opinion leaders to discuss future directions for the field and opportunities to consider. The first session of the conference, "How to Set a Big Picture Biophotonics Agenda," was focused on setting the stage for developing a vision and strategies for translation and impact on society of biophotonic technologies. The invited speakers, panelists, and attendees engaged in discussions that focused on opportunities and promising applications for biophotonic techniques, challenges when working at the confluence of the physical and biological sciences, driving factors for advances of biophotonic technologies, and educational opportunities. We share a summary of the presentations and discussions. Three main themes from the conference are presented in this position paper that capture the current status, opportunities, challenges, and future directions of biophotonics research and key areas of applications: (1) biophotonics at the nano-to microscale level; (2) biophotonics at meso-to macroscale level; and (3) biophotonics and the clinical translation conundrum.
AB - The 5th International Conference on Biophotonics (ICOB) held April 30 to May 1, 2017, in Fremantle, Western Australia, brought together opinion leaders to discuss future directions for the field and opportunities to consider. The first session of the conference, "How to Set a Big Picture Biophotonics Agenda," was focused on setting the stage for developing a vision and strategies for translation and impact on society of biophotonic technologies. The invited speakers, panelists, and attendees engaged in discussions that focused on opportunities and promising applications for biophotonic techniques, challenges when working at the confluence of the physical and biological sciences, driving factors for advances of biophotonic technologies, and educational opportunities. We share a summary of the presentations and discussions. Three main themes from the conference are presented in this position paper that capture the current status, opportunities, challenges, and future directions of biophotonics research and key areas of applications: (1) biophotonics at the nano-to microscale level; (2) biophotonics at meso-to macroscale level; and (3) biophotonics and the clinical translation conundrum.
KW - Multiscale biophotonics
KW - outlook
KW - translational biophotonics
KW - white paper
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U2 - 10.1117/1.JBO.23.2.021103
DO - 10.1117/1.JBO.23.2.021103
M3 - Article
C2 - 29275543
AN - SCOPUS:85040361926
VL - 23
JO - Journal of Biomedical Optics
JF - Journal of Biomedical Optics
SN - 1083-3668
IS - 2
M1 - 021103
ER -