Journal of Biomedical Optics
Last updated ISSN 1083-3668
Journal of Biomedical Optics is published by SPIE in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $1,675.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Biomedical Optics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
- Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
- Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
- Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
- Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies
- Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Thermography and Photoacoustic Techniques
Key facts
| Publisher | SPIE |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1083-3668, 1560-2281 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $1,675 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 7,832 |
| Publishing since | 1979 |
| Journal website | biomedicaloptics.spiedigitallibrary.org/journal.aspx |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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