TOPICAL PROBLEMS OF BIOPHOTONICS

Chairs
Martin Frenz, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland
Ilya Turchin, Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Russia
Alex Vitkin, University of Toronto, Canada

Topics

Coherence domain optical methods and optical coherence tomography
Optical diffuse spectroscopy/tomography
Fluorescence imaging
Multiphoton and super-resolution microscopy in the biomedical sciences
Optoacoustic imaging

Scientific Secretary
Pavel Subochev
Institute of Applied Physics RAS
46 Uljanov str., 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
pavel.subochev@gmail.com

Invited speakers

	H. Gunhan Akarcay University of Bern, Switzerland	Optical extinction measurements on strongly scattering samples by way of imaging
	Stefan Andersson-Engels Irish Photonic Integration Centre, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland	Ultrasound Optical Tomography
	Zhongping Chen Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine, USA	Advances in Optical Coherence Elastography
	Xose Luis Dean-Ben Technical University of Munich, Germany	The promise of large-scale brain imaging with optoacoustics
	Jörg Enderlein Drittes Physikalisches Institut – Biophysik Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany	Metal induced energy transfer and axial superresolution microscopy
	Maria Angela Franceschini Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA	Clinical monitoring of Cerebral Oxygen Delivery & Consumption with Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy
	Martin Frenz University of Bern, Switzerland	Quantitative optoacoustic imaging
	Mikhail Kirillin Institute of Applied Physics RAS, N.Novgorod, Russia	Optical coherence tomography in pathology recognition and monitoring of photodynamic therapy: benefits from numerical processing in clinical applications
	Karsten König University of Saarland, Germany	Clinical multiphoton/CARS tomography of skin, brain and eye
	Kirill Larin University of Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, USA	Optical Coherence Elastography of soft tissues
	Marcel Leutenegger Max Plank Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Department of NanoBiophotonics, Göttingen, Germany	Parallelized RESOLFT nanoscopy
	Igor Meglinski University of Oulu, Finland	Towards application of angular momentum of light for tissue diagnosis
	Seemantini Nadkarni Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA	Intracoronary birefringence microscopy of atherosclerotic plaque
	Guenther Paltauf Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria	Overcoming the trade-off between depth of field and lateral resolution in scanning photoacoustic imaging with focused detectors
	Alexander Priezzhev Moscow State University, Russia	Multimodal dynamic and structural imaging of erythrocytes and blood capillaries
	Peter So Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA	Towards Synaptomics
	Valery Tuchin Saratov National Research State University, Russia	Enhanced imaging of tissues by immersion clearing/contrasting: from x-ray to terahertz
	Alex Vitkin University of Toronto, Canada	Functional optical coherence tomography: preclinical and clinical updates from the Nizhny Novgorod -Toronto collaboration
	Heidrun Wabnitz Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany	Performance characterization of instrumentation for diffuse optical imaging and spectroscopy
	Vladimir Zharov University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA	Recent advances in in vivo flow cytometry