Fourth International Workshop on Metabolic Imaging

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请用于支付参加第四届国际代谢成像研讨会的本科生、研究生、博士后和初级教师的差旅费和住宿费。为期三天的会议将于2014年7月30日至8月1日在宾夕法尼亚大学校园举行。代谢成像是一个相对较新的领域，作为一种更精确的诊断、管理和治疗疾病的手段，它具有巨大的潜力。由于其高度跨学科的性质，直到最近，它的实践者和学生都很难分享发现。为了解决这个问题，我们从2006年开始举办关于代谢成像的国际研讨会。基于我们收到的对这些会议的积极回应，我们寻求进一步扩大2014年研讨会的跨学科性质，包括研究人员、临床医生和使用几种不同代谢成像方式的学生，包括超极化MRI、PET和光学成像。在这些领域中被认为是领导者的学者将应邀就诸如最新技术进展，新的成像方法和临床翻译等主题进行一系列的演讲。进一步的时间将分配给20名学生和博士后研究人员

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funding to cover the travel and lodging expenses of undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty members attending the Fourth International Workshop on Metabolic Imaging. This three-day conference is scheduled to take place from July 30 through August 1, 2014, on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Metabolic imaging is a relatively new field that possesses abundant potential as a means of more precisely diagnosing, managing, and treating disease. Because of its highly interdisciplinary nature, it has until recently been difficult for its practitioners and students to shae findings. To remedy this problem, we have since 2006 been hosting international workshops on metabolic imaging. Based on the positive response we received about these conferences, we seek to even further expand the interdisciplinary nature of the 2014 workshop by including researchers, clinicians, and students who use several different metabolic imaging modalities including hyperpolarized MRI, PET, and optical imaging. Scholars who are considered leaders in these fields will give a series of invited talks on toics such as recent technological advances, novel imaging methods, and clinical translation. Further time will be allotted for twenty students and postdoctoral researchers to give short talks. Question-and- answer sessions, panel discussions, and poster sessions will also occur. Workshop proceedings will be internationally disseminated via a free, easy to-access, and interactive webcast, a special issue in NMR in Biomedicine, and the creation of a document highlighting the foremost issues in metabolic imaging, which will be posted on our website.