THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY

描述（由申请人提供）：国际电子断层扫描大会将于2006年11月5日至8日在加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥的天堂角度假村和会议中心举行。这次大会是1997年开始开始的一系列研讨会中的第四次，这些研讨会汇集了开发和应用电子显微断层扫描的从业人员。这些会议为密集的互动提供了一个论坛，促进了技术发展和用户数量的增加。在这个节骨眼上，电子断层扫描是多尺度3D显微镜中发展最快的方法之一，并且正在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，我们邀请了来自广泛领域的发言者，以促进思想的交流。此拨款申请的唯一目的是获得资金，以帮助支付受邀演讲者，计划委员会和会议主席的费用。

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.