title: Advances in optics for biotechnology, medicine and surgery.
abstract: The guest editors introduce a Biomedical Optics Express feature issue that includes contributions from participants at the 2013 conference on Advances in Optics for Biotechnology, Medicine and Surgery XIII.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
authors.forename: Maryann
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fitzmaurice
authors.affiliation: Thayer School of Engineering, 14 Engineering Drive, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
authors.forename: Brian W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Pogue
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Boston, MA 02114 USA ; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA ; Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114 USA.
authors.forename: Guillermo J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Tearney
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712 USA.
authors.forename: James W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Tunnell
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712 USA.
authors.forename: Changhuei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yang
keywords: (170.0110) Imaging systems; (170.0170) Medical optics and biotechnology