Interdisciplinary Training in Biomedical Imaging

描述（由申请人提供）： 在过去的几十年里，生物医学成像已经发展成为生物医学研究和临床医学不可或缺的工具。此外，随着成像技术及其生物医学基础的进步，生物医学成像正在迅速发展，并将继续彻底改变生物医学。随着其广泛的应用和高水平的正在进行的研究活动，有一个训练有素的博士学位的巨大需求。生物医学成像领域的高级科学家/工程师。另一方面，作为一个高度学科化的领域，生物医学成像的培训不可避免地具有跨学科的性质。鉴于这些关键的需求和非常成功的，合作的，充满活力的教育和研究环境，在格鲁吉亚理工学院和埃默里大学，特别是在生物医学工程的联合部门，本提案寻求支持的T32培训补助金，以资助“跨学科的生物医学成像博士前培训。“学员，一旦选定，将报名参加跨部门的生物工程研究生课程与他们的家庭部门在格鲁吉亚技术/埃默里生物医学工程系。提供的培训包括正式的课程工作，基于问题的学习，实验室轮换，研讨会和论文研究。为了确保跨学科培训，学员将接受至少一个方法学领域（医学成像，图像处理，光学成像或分子成像）和一个。应用领域（癌症、心血管或神经科学）。为此，来自格鲁吉亚理工学院和埃默里大学的教师在这些领域的工作和合作是组装。每个学生将选择两个导师，一个强调方法学，另一个专门从事应用，作为他/她的顾问，以指导他/她的培训和论文研究。我们相信，这种新颖的跨学科方法将导致博士毕业生。学位，谁拥有坚实的背景，在方法和生物医学应用，并将有一个富有成效的职业生涯，在生物医学成像。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the past few decades, biomedical imaging has evolved into an indispensable tool for biomedical research and clinical medicine. Furthermore, with advances in imaging technology and its biomedical basis, biomedical imaging is rapidly growing and will continue to revolutionize biomedicine. With its broad applications and high level of ongoing research activities, there is a great need for trained Ph.D. level scientist/engineers in the field of biomedical imaging. On the other hand, as a highly disciplinary field, training in biomedical imaging has to be inevitably interdisciplinary in nature. Given these critical needs and the highly successful, collaborative, and dynamic education and research environment available at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, particularly in the joint department of biomedical engineering, this proposal seeks support for a T32 training grant to fund "Interdisciplinary predoctoral training in biomedical imaging." Trainees, once selected, will enroll into the interdepartmental bioengineering graduate program with their home department in the Georgia Tech/Emory biomedical engineering department. The training to be provided includes formal course work, problem based learning, laboratory rotations, seminars and dissertation research. To ensure interdisciplinary training, the trainees will be trained in at least one methodological area (medical imaging, image processing, optical imaging, or molecular imaging) and one. application area (cancer, cardiovascular, or neuroscience). To this end, a faculty from both Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University working and collaborating in these areas is assembled. Each student will choose two mentor, with one emphasizing methodology and the other specializing in applications, as his/her advisors to guide his/her training and dissertation research. We believe that such a novel, interdisciplinary approach will lead to graduates with Ph.D. degrees, who possess solid background in both methodology and biomedical applications and will have a fruitful career in biomedical imaging.