Papers are invited on all areas of development and application of confocal, nonlinear optical, and novel optical microscopies including, but not limited to, the following and related areas:

• high resolution optical imaging on the nanometer scale (e.g. PALM, STORM, STED)

• fast imaging of large and complex biological specimens (e.g. SPIM, DSLM)

• multiphoton microscopy, SHG, THG, CARS, SRS, FWM microscopies using exogenous and/or endogenous contrast

• adaptive optics, spatial and temporal control of the excitation

• endoscopic microscopy

• single molecule microscopy and microanalysis

• phase microscopy, holographic based microscopy, absorption microscopy, polarization microscopy

• multi-modal spectroscopic analysis in microscopy

• novel image contrast enhancement approaches such as SER and other near field surface effects

• FRET-FLIM modalities, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

• biomedical instrumentation

• micro-optics and MEMS based optical systems for the biomedical diagnosis

• fast image acquisition with time-resolving image acquisition systems

• applications to cell biology, developmental biology, animal models

• clinical applications of optical microscopy

• macroscopic imaging obtained with microscopy, when using high spatial dynamic range microscopy

• advanced methods in neurophotonics.