Lasers in Medicine and Biology Gordon Conference - July 14-19, 2002 at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, NH

[201351richardson - kortum2002年7月14日至19日，在美国新罕布什尔州梅里登市金博尔联合学院举行的激光医学和生物学戈登会议上，寻求研究生、博士后研究员和年轻研究人员的资助。会议将包括来自学术界、政府机构、国家实验室和工业界的研究人员，他们将研究激光和光学科学在医学和外科中的新兴应用。特别强调的是接近临床应用和/或商业发展的技术进步。课程包括：光学相干断层扫描；光学传感、成像和操作的纳米技术；微光学器件的生物学应用综合成像方法；荧光法在生物医学诊断中的应用光学显微镜研究进展生命内成像与显微术；波前传感与自适应光学在视力矫正中的应用以及光动力疗法。9个项目会议中的7个包括至少一个在早期诊断领域的实质性应用的谈话。一个重要的特点是将生物医学工程的学生和博士后研究员与学术工程师、科学家、临床医生和行业成员聚集在一起，讨论和确定该领域需要解决的最重要的问题和问题。两个专题讨论会将促进讨论进程。第一次研讨会题为“生物医学工程的职业道路”，由来自学术界、工业界和政府的临床医生和工程师作简短的演讲，为研究生和博士后提供职业建议。第二次专题讨论会强调了临床可行性尖端的新技术发展。《生物医学光学杂志》的一期特刊将专门讨论“光学检测：临床和工业进展”。会议具有很高的智力价值，计划的组织重点是新兴医疗技术，这些技术很可能对医学和外科产生广泛而重要的影响。

0201351Richards-KortumFunding is sought to enable graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and young investigators to participate in the Lasers in Medicine and Biology Gordon Conference Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, NH July 14-19, 2002. The conference is to include investigators from academia, government agencies, national laboratories, and industry in examining emerging applications of lasers and optical sciences in medicine and surgery. Particular emphasis is given to technological advances close to clinical application and/or commercial development. Sessions include: Optical Coherence Tomography; Nanotechnologies for Optical Sensing, Imaging, and Manipulation; Biological Applications of Micro-optical Devices; Combined Imaging Methodologies; Fluorescence Methods for Biomedical Diagnostics; Advances in Optical Microscopy; Intra-vital Imaging and Microscopy; Wavefront Sensing and Adaptive Optics in Vision Correction; and Photodynamic Therapy. Seven of the nine program sessions include at least one talk with substantial applications in the area of early diagnosis. An important feature is to bring students and post-doctoral fellows in biomedical engineering together with academic engineers and scientists, clinicians, and members of industry to discuss and define the most important questions and problems to be solved in this field. Two special symposia will facilitate the discussion process. The first symposium, "Career Paths in Biomedical Engineering", features short presentations from clinicians and engineers in academia, industry, and government to provide career advice to graduate students and post- doctoral fellows. The second symposium highlights new technologic developments on the cusp of clinical viability. A special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Optics is to be devoted to "Optical Detection: Clinical and Industrial Advances". The meeting is of high intellectual merit with the program being organized so as to focus on emerging medical technologies holding a high likelihood of making broad and important impacts on medicine and surgery.