The International Molecular and Functional Pulmonary Imaging Workshop

描述（由申请人提供）：申请资金用于支付受邀演讲者参加分子和功能性肺成像国际研讨会的差旅费和住宿费。我们也在为这次会议的网络广播和出版申请资金~我们计划通过互联网广播整个节目， 我们在上一次研讨会上取得了成功。 本次会议是一个为期三天的研讨会，定于2013年5月15日至5月17日，将在美国胸科学会年会之前在宾夕法尼亚大学校园举行，将于2013年5月17日至5月22日在费城举行。与我们以前举办的肺部成像研讨会不同，该研讨会主要关注肺部疾病的结构和功能成像，即将举行的肺部研讨会的主要焦点将是分子探针的最新发展。 这些探针能够在细胞和分子水平上提供有关肺部疾病的信息。除了关注肺部成像的分子探针外，我们还将讨论结构和功能肺部成像的最新进展。 本次研讨会旨在汇集来自不同研究者群体的各种知识，经验和观点~它将涵盖以下主题：（1）炎症，巨噬细胞，凋亡肺细胞，酶活性探针的开发， 信号通路、氧化还原状态、血管损伤、蛋白水解和纤维化活性~（2） 目前使用的分子成像技术，如光学方法，PET和MRI在肺部疾病评估中的应用;（3）简要概述目前使用的成像方法，以获得肺结构和功能的定量评估。 该讲习班的具体目标包括：（1）将肺部团体的注意力集中在用于开发和测试与肺部病症相关的分子探针的现有技术方法以及正在开发的方法上，以促进关于其效用领域的对话~（2）向肺部和成像界介绍用于评估肺部代谢活动的分子和光学方法，及其潜在的诊断应用~（3）促进工业界和学术界具有适用知识的专家之间更密切的对话~（4）通过互联网直播向尽可能多的观众传播大量信息~（5） 通过允许非出席的观众成员经由交互式技术机制参与讨论，从而使与会者的兴趣和意见可能多样化。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funding is requested to cover the travel and lodging expenses of the invited speakers for an international workshop on molecular and functional pulmonary imaging. We are also requesting funds for the webcasting and publication of this meeting~ we plan to broadcast the entire program over the Internet as we have successfully done in our last workshop. This conference is a three day workshop that is scheduled for May 15 through May 17, 2013 and will be held on the campus o the University of Pennsylvania right before the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society, which will be held in Philadelphia from May 17 through May 22, 2013. Unlike our previously held workshop on pulmonary imaging, which had focused mostly on structural and functional imaging of pulmonary disorders, the main focus of the upcoming pulmonary workshop will be on the latest developments of molecular probes. These probes are able to provide information on pulmonary disorders at the cellular and molecular level. Alongside this focus on molecular probes for pulmonary imaging, we will also discuss the latest development on structural and functional pulmonary imaging. This workshop is designed to bring together a great variety of knowledge, experience and perspective from a diverse group of investigators~ it will cover the following topics: (1) developent of probes for inflammation, macrophages, apoptotic pulmonary cells, enzymatic activities, signal pathways, redox state, vascular injury, proteolysis, and fibrotic activities~ (2) applications of the currently used molecular imaging techniques such as optical methods, PET, and MRI for assessment of pulmonary disorders~ and (3) a brief overview of the currently used imaging method for obtaining quantitative assessment of lung structure and function. The specific aims of this workshop include: (1) to focus the attention of the pulmonary community on state of the art methods for developing and testing of molecular probes relevant to pulmonary disorders as well as methods under development, in order to foster dialogue about their areas of utility~ (2) to introduce the pulmonary and imaging communities to molecular and optica methods for assessment of metabolic activities in the lung, and their potential diagnosic applications~ (3) To facilitate closer dialogue between experts with applicable knowledge form both industry and academia~ (4) to disseminate the considerable information presented to the largest possible audience via live internet broadcast~ (5) to bring the largest possible diversity of interest and opinion to the floor by allowing non attending audience members to participate in the discussion via an interactive technological mechanism.