Conference: Organization of the 1996 Advances in Optical Imaging and Photon Migration Topical Meeting to be held in Orlando, Florida

该提案寻求美国光学学会NSF对“1996年光学成像和光子迁移专题会议进展”的支持，该会议将于1996年3月18日至20日在佛罗里达的奥兰多举行。 会议的重点是光学成像的进展，这在很大程度上取决于一些学科的进展。 此外，各种技术需要根据相互竞争的方法来判断，并根据对联合方法进展的了解来提高。 例如，用光和近红外辐射成像可能很快导致重要的新模式，用于医学成像和诊断大脑或乳房疾病。 几个时间分辨，频率调制，相干性，散斑和逆技术，现在正在开发的特征与吸收和散射截面的变化相关的组织的关键属性。 使用的是相干后向散射，弹道和早期到达的光，超快脉冲技术和空间滤波，光谱动力学，时间分辨全息术，非线性光学现象的干涉和相干性，以及相位调制方法。 从国家科学基金会要求的资金是支持旅行的优秀研究生，博士后研究员和初级教师的会议。 这是该系列的第二次会议。 第一次会议是该领域进步的试金石。 它清楚地表明了当时的技术水平，并在确定今后的挑战方面发挥了重要作用。 ***

9627352 Hennage This proposal seeks support from NSF by the Optical Society of America for the "1996 Advances in Optical Imaging and Photon Migration Topical Meeting," to be held March 18-20, 1996, in Orlando, Florida. The meeting focuses on progress in optical imaging which depends crucially on progress in a number of disciplines. Moreover, various techniques need to be judged in the light of competing methods and sharpened with the knowledge of progress of allied methods. For example, imaging with light and with near infrared radiation may soon lead to important new modalities for medical imaging and diagnosis of the brain or breast diseases. Several time resolved, frequency modulation, coherence, speckle and inverse techniques are now being developed to characterize the key properties of tissues that are associated with variations in the absorption and scattering cross sections. Use is made of coherent backscattering, ballistic and early arriving light, ultrafast pulse techniques and spatial filtering, spectral dynamics, time-resolved holography, interference and coherence of nonlinear optical phenomena, and phase modulation approaches. The funds requested from the NSF are to support travel to the conference of outstanding graduate students, post doctoral fellows and junior faculty. This is the second conference in this series. The first conference served as the touchstone for the progress of the field. It represented a clear statement of the state of the art of the time and played an important role in defining the challenges ahead. ***