Introduction

摘要

This proceedings volume is from the Dynamics and Fluctuations in Biomedical Photonics ⅩⅢ conference, which was held on February 14 and 15, 2016 at the SPIE Photonics West Conference in San Francisco, California. It was a two-day meeting featuring 32 oral and invited presentations, as well as a joint poster session of 16 poster presentations from leading international research groups. The goal of the conference was to gather essentially different groups of leading researchers, such as biophysicists, medical doctors and physicians, mathematicians, optical and laser engineers, and students, to report the current state of the art. These groups also sought to facilitate future progress in the development of optical and laser technologies based on dynamics and fluctuations approaches (like laser-speckle, speckle-based coherence imaging, microcirculation analysis using various optical techniques and methods, dynamics of molecular diffusion, including nanoparticles, etc.) towards biomedical science and clinical applications. These approaches should be useful for diagnosis and therapy of devastating life-threatening diseases, such as those of the heart, cancer, vascular, mental illness, and many others that manifest as a breach of the living organism's immune systems at the level of molecule, cell, organ, or organism as a whole. We hope the proceedings of this conference will contribute to the development of such interdisciplinary fields of science and applications as dynamics and structures of living systems, biomedical optics and laser medicine, and that it will be useful to scientists, medical doctors, engineers and students.