<div dir="ltr"><b>Adaptive Optics for Biomedical Applications</b><div><b><br></b></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12px;font-family:Archivo,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,"Microsoft Yahei","Hiragino Sans GB",sans-serif;line-height:23.1px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">Biomedical Optics Express, </em><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">published by Optica (formerly OSA),</span> welcomes submissions to a feature issue on <i>"Adaptive Optics for Biomedical Applications". </i>Adaptive optics has enabled unprecedented access to the basic building blocks of biology and medicine. Borrowing ideas and approaches from astronomy, adaptive optics was first demonstrated in living biological tissue—the human eye—25 years ago. Since then, adaptive optics has expanded its use and applications in ophthalmology, vision science, microscopy and neuroscience. This was made possible by technology development targeted for these specific application areas and fueled by a growing need to quantify and visualize biological structures and processes at cellular and sub-cellular resolution in living tissue.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12px;font-family:Archivo,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,"Microsoft Yahei","Hiragino Sans GB",sans-serif;line-height:23.1px">This feature issue will collate and summarize the major advances in these areas over the last 3 decades and disseminate the latest research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:12px;font-family:Archivo,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,"Microsoft Yahei","Hiragino Sans GB",sans-serif"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Microscopy</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Neuroscience</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Ophthalmology</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Vision Science</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Computational Adaptive Optics—Wavefront sensorless Adaptive Optics & digital aberration correction</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Novel Adaptive Optics instrumentation</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Wavefront sensing and correction</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Image processing algorithms</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Machine Learning</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Functional imaging</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Disease biomarkers</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Clinical translation</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Multimodal Adaptive Optics technology</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12px;font-family:Archivo,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,"Microsoft Yahei","Hiragino Sans GB",sans-serif;line-height:23.1px">The standard <em style="box-sizing:border-box">Biomedical Optics Express</em> <a href="https://opg.optica.org/submit/review/pub_charge.cfm#apcs" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;color:rgb(120,0,204);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Article Processing Charges</a> will apply to all published articles. Please prepare manuscripts according to the author instructions for submission to Biomedical Optics Express and submit through our <a href="https://prism.optica.org/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FAuthor" style="background:0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(120,0,204);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Prism's electronic submission system</a>, specifying from the drop-down menu that the manuscript is for the feature issue on <i>Adaptive Optics for Biomedical Applications</i>.</p><h5 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Archivo,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,"Microsoft Yahei","Hiragino Sans GB",sans-serif;line-height:25.08px;margin:0.5em 0px"><font size="2">Submission Opens: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:normal">14 April 2022</span></font></h5><h5 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Archivo,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,"Microsoft Yahei","Hiragino Sans GB",sans-serif;line-height:25.08px"><font size="2">Submission Deadline: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:normal">1 August 2022</span></font></h5><h5 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Archivo,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,"Microsoft Yahei","Hiragino Sans GB",sans-serif;line-height:25.08px;margin:0.5em 0px"><font size="2">Feature Editors</font></h5><span style="font-family:Archivo,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,"Microsoft Yahei","Hiragino Sans GB",sans-serif">Ramkumar Sabesan, </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Archivo,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,"Microsoft Yahei","Hiragino Sans GB",sans-serif">University of Washington, USA</em><span style="font-family:Archivo,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Ar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