Symposium on Advances in Optical Biopsy and Optical Mammography

9711914阿尔法诺1997年4月24-25日在纽约市立大学研究生院举行了为期两天的题为光学活检和光学乳房摄影术高级研讨会。这次会议是由纽约科学院和纽约城市大学纽约州立大学超快光子材料和应用先进技术中心联合举办的。研讨会的目标是促进对用于癌症检测的光学方法的生物医学仪器的了解和发展。光学活检和乳房X光摄影是一种很有前途的新技术，可以在不使用侵入性技术的情况下确定组织是否为癌症。对光激发组织发出的光的光谱的分析使研究人员能够检测组织中的物理和化学变化，并确定组织是正常的、良性的还是癌变的。因为它们是微创的，并且使用非电离辐射来检测高灵敏度和准确性的疾病，这些新技术可能会导致新的诊断和治疗技术。基金会的资助支付了美国与会者的部分旅费，他们在大约80人出席的会议上准备和发表了科学报告。在会议上介绍的信息将在《纽约科学院年鉴》中传播，从而向广大受众提供会议成果。***

9711914 Alfano A two day workshop entitled Advanced in Optical Biopsy and Optical Mammography occurred April 24-25, 1997 at the City University of New York Graduate Center. The meeting was jointly organized by the New York Academy of Science and the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Ultrafast Photonic Materials and Applications at the City University of New York. The goal of the symposium is to advance the understanding and development of biomedical instrumentation for optical methods of cancer detection. Optical biopsy and mammography are promising new techniques for determining whether or not a tissue is cancerous without using invasive techniques. An analysis of the spectrum of light emitted from optically excited tissue allows investigators to detect physical and chemical changes in tissue and determine if the tissue is normal, benign, or cancerous. Because they are minimally invasive, and use non-ionizing radiation to detect diseases with high sensitivity and accuracy, these new techniques may lead to novel diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. Funding from the Foundation defrayed partial travel expenses for the U.S. participants who prepared and delivered scientific presentations at the meeting where approximately 80 persons attended. Information presented at the conference is to be disseminated in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, thereby making the results of the meeting available to a wide audience. ***