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

本提案寻求美国光学学会为1996年3月18日至20日在佛罗里达州奥兰多举行的“1996光学成像和光子迁移专题会议进展”向美国国家科学基金会提供支持。会议的重点是光学成像的进展，这在很大程度上取决于若干学科的进展。此外，各种技术需要根据竞争方法进行判断，并随着对相关方法进展的了解而不断提高。例如，光成像和近红外辐射成像可能很快就会为医学成像和脑或乳腺疾病的诊断带来重要的新模式。目前正在开发几种时间分辨、频率调制、相干、散斑和逆技术，以表征与吸收和散射截面变化相关的组织的关键特性。使用相干后向散射，弹道和早期到达光，超快脉冲技术和空间滤波，光谱动力学，时间分辨全息，非线性光学现象的干涉和相干，以及相位调制方法。美国国家科学基金会申请的资金用于支持优秀研究生、博士后研究员和初级教师参加会议的旅费。这是本系列的第二次会议。第一次会议成为该领域进展的试金石。它清楚地说明了当时的技术状况，并在确定未来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. ***