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SPIE BIOS 2026
January 17 - 18, 2026 | San Francisco, California, USA
The industry's most important biophotonics, biomedical optics, and imaging meeting
Imec will be present at SPIE Photonics West, co-located with SPIE BIOS. Visit us at booth 5216 to learn more about photonics for bio applications, photoacoustics and much more.
Imec-related papers
Industry presentations:
- How photonics enables higher integration density and cost efficiency for biomedical applications - January 18 January 2026, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Pol Van Dorpe, Fellow
Papers:
- Shifted excitation Raman difference spectroscopy for non-invasive automated urine analysis of creatinine and urea - Mathijs van Kilsdonk, R&D Project engineer
- Optimization of kernel and region of interest sizes for speckle plethysmography monitoring - 17 January 2026 • 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM PST, Ilde Lorato, R&D engineer
Would you like to have a meeting with us at the conference on one of these topics, please contact us.
Conference details
SPIE BiOS is the leading biomedical optics conference. Its topics range from biomedical optics, diagnostics and therapeutics, to biophotonics, new imaging modalities, optical coherence tomography, neurophotonics, optogenetics, tissue optics, and nanophotonics.