18th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography

摘要 这项拨款申请是为了支持代表性不足的团体参加 第18届电阻抗断层成像的生物医学应用国际年会 （ICBAEIT），将于2017年6月21日至24日在达特茅斯学院塞耶工程学院举行， 汉诺威，新罕布什尔州。该会议于2000年开始，自成立以来，每年都作为 电阻抗成像发展创新研究的首次科学会议 技术及其在医学和生物学中的应用。本次会议的目的是汇集 来自学术界、医院和诊所、国家实验室和工业界的研究人员共同研究如何 新的电阻抗成像技术可以为医疗实践、生物医学和医学领域带来进步。 理解，以及对具有各种临床病理的患者的管理。电阻抗 断层扫描（EIT）是一种低成本、安全且高度特异性的医学成像方式， 良性和病理组织之间的特性（生物阻抗）对比，用于各种潜在的临床 应用.会议的目标是鼓励EIT研究人员之间的科学交流， 学术实验室，临床研究，商业企业和国家实验室，以批判性地评估国家 并为未来设定目标。对这次会议的支持将有助于我们加强能力， 并通过促进个人层面的互动来更新国内和国际EIT社区 高级和初级研究人员以及来自社会环境中代表性不足的群体的研究人员之间的关系， 同时确保鼓励多样性和家庭住宿。会议有一套口头计划， 基础研究、应用技术开发和医疗保健等领域的专家参与的会议 针对初级研究人员和那些通常代表性不足的人举办了一系列讲习班， 医学影像会议。今年将增加医学博士在接受演讲者中的参与， 然而，生物医学技术和应用的根本性突破仍将是主要重点。基于 自本届年会开始以来，基于经济转型期的出版物数量不断增加， 这次会议，连同我们拟议的讲习班和口头会议议程，我们预计这将是一个 我们EIT社区的最佳场所。应要求提供资金，以最大限度地提高妇女和学生的参与率 这是一个机会，以确保最大限度地实现公平提供这些下- 代表团体。

Abstract This funding application is to support travel and registration costs of under-represented groups to attend the 18th Annual International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (ICBAEIT), which will be held on June 21–24, 2017 at Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering in Hanover, New Hampshire. This conference started in 2000, and since its inception has run annually as the premiere scientific meeting for creative research into the development of electrical impedance imaging technologies and their use in medicine and biology. The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers from academia, hospitals and clinics, national laboratories, and industries to jointly examine how new electrical impedance imaging technologies can bring progresses to medical practices, biological understandings, and the management of patients with a variety of clinical pathologies. Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a low-cost, safe, and highly specific medical imaging modality that leverages the electrical property (bioimpedance) contrast between benign and pathological tissues for a variety of potential clinical applications. The conference goals are to encourage scientific exchange between EIT researchers from academic labs, clinical research, commercial enterprises and national laboratories, to critically assess the state of our field and to set goals for the future. The support for this meeting will contribute to our ability to strengthen and renew both the domestic and international EIT community by promoting a personal level interaction between senior and junior researchers and those from under-represented groups in a social environment, while ensuring that diversity and family accommodation is encouraged. The meeting has a planned set of oral sessions with good participation from basic research, applied technology development, and medical researchers and a series of workshops targeted at junior researchers and those typically under-represented at medical image conferences. The participation of MDs in the accepted speakers will be increased this year, and yet fundamental breakthroughs in biomedical technology and applications will still be a primary focus. Based on the growing number of EIT-based publications since the start of this annual conference and the longevity of the conference, together with our proposed workshop and oral session agenda, we expect this will be one of the best venues for our EIT community. Funding to maximize female and student participation, as requested here, is an opportunity to ensure that maximum equity is achieved in providing access to these under- represented groups.