Biomedical Materials Investigated with Optical Methods
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 400
Special Issue Editors
2. Doctoral School, Polytechnic University of Timisoara, 300006 Timisoara, Romania
Interests: optomechatronics; laser systems; biomedical imaging; optical coherence tomography (OCT); measuring systems; optical metrology; materials study; biomaterials characterization
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Interests: dental medicine; biomaterials; prosthodontics; dental treatments; biomedical imaging; optical coherence tomography (OCT)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biocompatible and bioactive materials are essential for various fields of tissue engineering and greatly benefit the medical field. Hard tissue, such as bone or teeth, as well as soft tissue, including skin, muscles, and ligaments, are targeted by developing scaffolds of different types. Their characterization often targets trade-offs between contradictory properties, for example, porosity and mechanical resistance for bone replacement scaffolds. Therefore, the results of several assessment methods must be correlated to design and optimize various biomaterials. On the other hand, in vitro and in vivo investigations are required, the latter after implementing the biomaterials. A wide range of methods can be utilized for such investigations, including optical and laser scanning microscopy (including for the gold standard of histological evaluations), fluorescence, spectrometry, optical coherence tomography (OCT) (with its capability to perform non-invasive, real-time, quantitative assessments of biomaterials and tissue), X-ray investigations (including micro-CT), scanning electron microscopy, as well as mechanical testing.
The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together such optical and non-optical methods for both the in vitro and/or in vivo characterization of biocompatible materials. Of significant interest are innovative topics such as OCT, as well as emerging techniques, but also the correlation of a range of methods (as mentioned above) to design, test, optimize, or assess the results of implementation biomaterials, as well as corresponding tissue. Developing and testing dedicated systems and probes, alongside image and data processing to optimize biomaterials assessments, are also encouraged.
While this forum is open to all researchers in the fields above, it also provides a topical selection of papers presented at the Second International Conference ‘Advances in 3OM: Opto-Mechatronics, Opto-Mechanics, and Optical Metrology’, organized in Timisoara, Romania – European Capital of Culture 2023, and is also in the frame of UNESCO’s International Day of Light (IDL).
All types of contributions, i.e., research papers, reviews, and communications, are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Virgil-Florin Duma
Prof. Dr. Cosmin Sinescu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomaterials
- biocompatibility
- scaffolds
- optical methods
- biophotonics
- biomedical imaging
- optical coherence tomography (OCT)
- optical microscopy
- confocal microscopy
- X-ray investigations
- micro-CT
- data/image processing
- dental medicine
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