International Travel Support for Conference on Ultrasonic Biomedical Microscanning, Lake Rosseau, Canada, September 5-8, 2000

0074440利兹该奖项提供资金，以支持美国参加第二届超声生物医学显微扫描（UBM）国际会议;会议将于2000年9月5日至8日在加拿大罗索湖温德米尔大厦举行。该技术方案建立在1998年9月1日至4日在英国伊斯特伍德公园举行的第一届超声生物医学显微扫描国际会议的成果之上。美国国家科学基金会（NSF）为六名美国人提供了参加会议的旅费支持。S.来自美国的大约50名与会者中，超声显微扫描是一个最近迅速兴起的领域，在医学可视化和基础生物学和物理学研究方面具有巨大的潜力。UBM采用了新的超声换能器，其高中心频率（20 MHz以上）和伴随的大带宽提供了高度详细的可视化，例如，浅表器官、通过导管进入的组织或未染色的显微镜标本中的5 mm深度。 例如，50兆赫换能器正被用于检查人眼，其分辨率比0.04毫米精细;使用高于500兆赫频率的声学显微镜产生的分辨率比光学显微镜上级-不需要染色。 这次会议将作为一个刺激，以促进生产性的研究和发展方向，为这一新的领域。会议的目标是：提供一个论坛，以评估目前最先进的UBM技术和应用;促进不同多学科UBM领域专家之间的沟通;确定实际部署需要解决的关键问题;并与UBM和相关非超声方法专家分享对未来方向的见解。会议记录的执行摘要将提交给NSF。

0074440LizziThis award provides funds to support the attendance of United States participants at the Second International Conference on Ultrasonic Biomedical Microscanning (UBM); the conference will be held at Windermere House, Lake Rosseau, Canada, September 5-8, 2000. The technical program builds on the results of the First International Conference on Ultrasonic Biomedical Microscanning, Eastwood Park, UK, September 1-4, 1998. The National Science Foundation (NSF) provided travel support to that meeting for six U. S. participants of the approximately 50 attendees from the U.S., Europe, and Asia.Ultrasonic microscanning is a recent, rapidly emerging field with significant potential for medical visualization and fundamental biological and physical studies. UBM employs new ultrasonic transducers whose high center frequencies (above 20 MHz) and concomitant large bandwidths provide highly-detailed visualization of, e.g., 5-mm depths in superficial organs, tissues accessed via catheters, or unstained microscopic specimens. As an example, 50-MHz transducers are being used to examine the human eye with a resolution finer than 0.04 mm; acoustic microscopes using frequencies higher than 500 MHz have produced resolution superior to optical microscopes -- without the need for staining. The conference will serve as a stimulus to promoting productive research and development directions for this new field. The objectives of the conference are: to provide a forum to assess the current state-of-the-art in UBM technologies and applications; to foster communication among experts in diverse multi-disciplinary UBM fields; to identify key problems needing solution for practical deployment; and, to share insights into future directions with experts in UBM and allied non-ultrasound methodologies. An Executive Summary of the proceedings of the conference will be submitted to NSF.