2012 In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Gordon Research Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份申请，要求支持第七届戈登研究会议（GRC）的“体内磁共振”。本次会议将涵盖一系列主题，包括在细胞、动物和人类中使用磁共振成像和光谱学；解决基础研究和临床问题。特别的重点将放在刚刚出现的技术、生物和健康相关的问题上，这些问题将显著影响这一非凡的成像领域的发展。第七届会议将于2012年7月29日至8月3日在缅因州沃特维尔的科尔比学院举行。体内MRI戈登会议的主席是Greg J. Stanisz博士，加拿大多伦多大学医学生物物理系教授，多伦多Sunnybrook健康科学中心小动物成像设施学术主任。副主席是英国诺丁汉大学物理学与天文学教授Penny Gowland博士。第六届In Vivo MR GRC于2010年举行。正如提案中所详述的那样，这次会议非常成功（77%的与会者评价这次会议是“2010年参加的最好的科学会议”）。在磁场强度、仪器、成像速度和一系列新成像技术方面的显著进步，新型MRI造影剂的数据分析方法继续为快速增长创造丰富的环境。现在是时候，也是必要的，把主要的个人和未来的研究人员聚集在一起，深入讨论这个重要领域的下一步冒险，这是在其他科学场所没有做过的。会议将包括科学会议，每个会议有两到三名发言人和一名讨论负责人。还将有海报会议（大多数参与者将被要求展示海报）和讨论，旨在促进参与者之间的密切互动。按照传统标准，GRC会议规模较小（约150- 200人），但邀请和招募与会者的方式鼓励并确保代表学术机构和政府机构的不同群体的初级和高级研究人员以及来自公司研究项目的个人参加。我们强烈鼓励学生和博士后参加会议，并为大多数学生与会者提供学生津贴，以抵消部分会议费用。口头报告将包括年轻的调查人员。本文所要求的支助将用于促进初级调查人员（重点是妇女、少数民族和残疾人）的出席（会议费用和/或旅费）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application requesting support for the seventh Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on "In Vivo Magnetic Resonance." This meeting will cover an array of topics spanning the use of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and spectroscopy in cells, animals, and humans; addressing both basic research and clinical concerns. Particular emphases will be placed on just emerging technological, biological, and health related issues that will significantly impact the growth of this remarkable imaging field. The seventh conference will be held July 29 - August 03, 2012, at Colby College, Waterville, ME. The Chair of the In Vivo MRI Gordon Conference is Greg J. Stanisz, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Academic Director of the Small Animal Imaging Facility, Sunnybrook Heath Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON. The vice-Chair is Penny Gowland, Ph.D., Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nottingham, UK. The sixth In Vivo MR GRC was held in 2010. As detailed in this proposal, this conference was extremely successful (77% attendees evaluated this conference as "the best scientific meeting attended in 2010"). Notable advances in magnet field strength, instrumentation, imaging speed, and in a wide array of new imaging techniques, methods of data analysis on novel MRI contrast agents continue to create a rich environment for rapid growth. It is both timely and necessary to gather together the leading individuals and future investigators to address, in depth, as is done at no other scientific venue, the next ventures of this important field. The conference will include scientific sessions, each with two to three speakers and a discussion leader. There will also be poster sessions (most participants will be expected to present a poster) and discussions designed to facilitate close interaction between the participants. By design, GRC meetings are small by conventional standards (approximately 150- 200 participants) but participants will be invited and recruited in a manner to encourage and ensure attendance by a diverse group of junior and senior investigators representing academic and government institutions and individuals from corporate research programs. Students and postdoctoral fellows will be strongly encouraged to attend and student stipends to offset some of the conference costs will be offered to most of the student attendees. Young investigators will be included in the oral presentations. The support requested herein will be used to facilitate the attendance (conference fees and/or travel costs) of junior investigators (emphasis on women, minorities, and the disabled). PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Support is requested for the seventh Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on "In Vivo Magnetic Resonance" (July 29 - August 3, 2012). Magnetic resonance techniques play a critical role in the delivery of high quality health care. This meeting will emphasize just emerging technological, biological, and health related issues that will significantly impact the growth and application of this remarkable imaging field.