International Travel Support for Conference on Ultrasonic Biomedical Microscanning, Lake Rosseau, Canada, September 5-8, 2000

0074440 lizzi该奖项提供资金支持美国参与者出席第二届超声生物医学微扫描国际会议（UBM）；会议将于2000年9月5日至8日在加拿大罗索湖的温德米尔大厦举行。该技术计划建立在1998年9月1日至4日在英国伊斯特伍德公园举行的第一届超声生物医学微扫描国际会议的结果之上。美国国家科学基金会（NSF）为来自美国、欧洲和亚洲的约50名与会者中的6名美国与会者提供了旅费支持。超声微扫描是一个新兴的领域，在医学可视化和基础生物学和物理学研究方面具有巨大的潜力。UBM采用新型超声换能器，其高中心频率（超过20mhz）和伴随的大带宽提供高度详细的可视化，例如，表面器官，通过导管进入的组织或未染色的显微标本的5mm深度。例如，50 mhz传感器被用于检测分辨率小于0.04 mm的人眼；使用频率高于500 MHz的声学显微镜产生的分辨率优于光学显微镜，而不需要染色。这次会议将促进这一新领域的生产性研究和发展方向。会议的目标是：提供一个论坛，以评估目前最先进的UBM技术和应用；促进多元多元领域的专家交流；找出实际部署中需要解决的关键问题；并与UBM和相关非超声方法的专家分享对未来发展方向的见解。会议记录的执行摘要将提交给NSF。

0074440LizziThis award provides funds to support the attendance of United States participants at the Second International Conference on Ultrasonic Biomedical Microscanning (UBM); the conference will be held at Windermere House, Lake Rosseau, Canada, September 5-8, 2000. The technical program builds on the results of the First International Conference on Ultrasonic Biomedical Microscanning, Eastwood Park, UK, September 1-4, 1998. The National Science Foundation (NSF) provided travel support to that meeting for six U. S. participants of the approximately 50 attendees from the U.S., Europe, and Asia.Ultrasonic microscanning is a recent, rapidly emerging field with significant potential for medical visualization and fundamental biological and physical studies. UBM employs new ultrasonic transducers whose high center frequencies (above 20 MHz) and concomitant large bandwidths provide highly-detailed visualization of, e.g., 5-mm depths in superficial organs, tissues accessed via catheters, or unstained microscopic specimens. As an example, 50-MHz transducers are being used to examine the human eye with a resolution finer than 0.04 mm; acoustic microscopes using frequencies higher than 500 MHz have produced resolution superior to optical microscopes -- without the need for staining. The conference will serve as a stimulus to promoting productive research and development directions for this new field. The objectives of the conference are: to provide a forum to assess the current state-of-the-art in UBM technologies and applications; to foster communication among experts in diverse multi-disciplinary UBM fields; to identify key problems needing solution for practical deployment; and, to share insights into future directions with experts in UBM and allied non-ultrasound methodologies. An Executive Summary of the proceedings of the conference will be submitted to NSF.