SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced that it will launch the new journal Neurophotonics in 2014, covering the optical technologies and methods driving profound advances in understanding brain phenomena such as electrical excitability, neuroglial partnership, neurovascular signalling, metabolic activity, and hemodynamics in health and disease.
The SPIE Journal of Biomedical Optics has included papers covering neurophotonics since it was launched in 1996. Its editor-in-chief, Lihong Wang of Washington University in St. Louis, said that the rapid growth and interest in this field has created a distinct need for a spin-off journal focused solely on the application of photonics technology and techniques in brain research.
Neurophotonics will include contributions covering microscopic methods; super-resolution nanoscopic methods; optogenetics and other optical methods of manipulating cellular behaviour; synthetic and genetically encoded optical reporters and actuators; optical clearing methods; methods to investigate neuroglial and vascular physiology; methods to investigate cellular energetics; non-invasive methods of measuring and imaging brain function and physiology; photoacoustic methods spanning from optical to acoustic resolution; clinical and translation applications; and computational methods relevant to understanding and interpreting optical measurements.
Authors are invited to submit articles beginning November 30, with publication to begin in early 2014.
Neurophotonics will be published quarterly both in print and online in the SPIE Digital Library, with each article published online immediately on completion. Articles will be freely available to all readers in 2014.
