The 2026 International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) recognizes the importance of global health equity and the responsibility of medical physicists to support fair access to safe and effective healthcare.

Celebrate IDMP with us and read about how biophotonics and medical physicists play an important role in the development of safe medical technologies, advancing clinical care and improving health outcomes for all.

Biomedical Optics Express

How seizures move through the brain

Early-stage cancer cell detection

What drives me is turning a beautiful piece of physics into a tool that someone else can use to discover something or to help a patient.

Tomáš Čižmár

A tiny sensor for a vast improvement

Medicine meets physics

“I loved physics because it answered a lot of ‘why’ questions. Why do we have gravity, why are there colors, why does a microwave heat up food? Discovery was exciting in physics.”

Melissa Skala: Molecular imaging innovator

Join the Clinical Vision Sciences group

Why Ireneusz Grulkowski went into optics

A new partnership for light-sheet microscopy

Monitoring stents through skin 

Defining tumor margins with OCT

From nonlinear optical imaging to pulse oximeters

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