Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XXIX

Optical coherence tomography and other optical methods and instruments based on coherent light interactions with tissues and detection methods are promising for noninvasive medical diagnostics and monitoring a wide spectrum of pathologies as well as fundamental biomedical research. The focus of this conference will be on the physical and mathematical basis of coherence domain methods, new instrumentation and techniques and their applications in biomedical science and clinical translation. Directions of research and development in areas such as optical coherence tomography (OCT), low-coherence interferometry, speckle-based measurement and imaging technologies, coherent light microscopy, and coherence technologies for novel-contrast imaging including flow, polarization and intrinsic tissue functional imaging will be considered. The image processing methods and the clinical translation of the coherence domain optical methods will also be discussed.

This conference will feature a dedicated memorial session for Joseph Izatt and will include some of his closest collaborators, past students, and post docs.

Papers are solicited on the following and related topics:

• optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems and theory
• novel light sources for OCT
• optical coherence microscopy (OCM)
• full-field, line-field, and parallel OCT
• low-coherence interferometry and topography
• white-light interferometry
• holographic imaging technique
• quantum OCT
• novel contrast mechanisms
• intrinsic tissue functional OCT, dynamic OCT, optoretinography, OCT elastography
• molecular and spectroscopic OCT
• polarization-sensitive OCT
• OCT angiography and Doppler OCT
• phase-contrast techniques
• multimodal imaging with OCT
• imaging devices and probes for OCT
• clinical translation of OCT
• ophthalmic applications
• cardiovascular and intravascular applications
• cancer imaging
• endoscopic imaging
• small animal imaging
• in vitro culture imaging
• developmental biology.