THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY

简介（由申请人提供）：国际电子断层摄影大会将于2006年11月5日至8日在加州圣地牙哥的天堂岬度假村和会议中心举行。本次大会是1997年开始的一系列研讨会中的第四次，旨在将开发和应用电子显微断层扫描的从业人员聚集在一起。这些会议为密切的相互作用提供了一个论坛，促进了技术发展，增加了用户人数。在这个关键时刻，电子断层扫描是多尺度3D显微镜中发展最快的方法之一，并被用于越来越广泛的应用，远远超出了第一次会议时的设想。因此，我们邀请来自不同领域的发言者，以促进思想的交流。此奖助金申请的唯一目的是取得资金以协助支付邀请讲者、计划委员会及会议主委的费用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The International Congress on Electron Tomography will be held at Paradise Point Resort and Conference Center, San Diego, CA, from November 5-8, 2006. This congress is the fourth in a series of workshops that was initiated in 1997 to begin to bring together practitioners developing and applying electron microscopic tomography. The meetings have provided a forum for intensive interactions and have catalyzed technical developments and an increased the number of users. At this juncture, electron tomography is one of the most rapidly evolving approaches in multiscale 3D microscopy and is being employed for an increasingly broad range of applications, well beyond those envisioned at the time of the first conference. Hence we are inviting speakers from a broad range of approaches in order to stimulate a cross-fertilization of ideas. The sole purpose of this grant request is to obtain funds to help defray costs for invited speakers, program committee and session chairs.