Organization of the 2006 Biomedical Topical Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 19-22, 2006

0624804 faris由于生物医学应用技术的迅速发展、该领域的多学科方面以及临床医生对医疗应用的投入需求，生物医学光学的大型重点会议，如2006年生物医学专题会议，在该领域取得进展方面发挥了关键作用。会议的广泛主题包括技术方面的研究工作，如漫射光学成像和光学相干断层扫描，以及应用领域，如神经科学和癌症。该会议允许跨技术领域、技术与应用之间以及应用与应用之间的临床翻译技术、方法和经验教训的转移。智力优势：为了实现上述进步，我们未来的学生需要接受多学科领域的培训，并学习与不同背景的人合作的技能。这意味着把物理科学和生物科学的学生聚集在一起，给他们机会了解其他学科，并找到方法说服学生打破他们经常发现自己的学科特定界限。这次会议旨在满足这些需求。更广泛的影响：这次会议将为学生提供一个非常活跃的多学科领域的机会，让他们看到他们的教育培训如何为社会带来好处。这种接触有助于激励学生从事科学事业，从而使科学知识和技术造福于人类。会议本身将通过分享成果、方法和发起合作来促进该领域的发展。会议的多学科性质将使各领域之间的概念和技术相互融合，从而从这种相互作用中获得协同作用。

0624804FarisBecause of the rapid development of techniques for biomedical applications, the multidisciplinary aspect of the field, and the need for input from clinicians on medical applications, a large and focused conference on biomedical optics, such as the 2006 Biomedical Topical Meeting, plays a critical role in making progress in the field. The broad topics for the conference include both research efforts on technologies, such as diffuse optical imaging and optical coherence tomography, and in application areas, such as neuroscience and cancer. This meeting allows transfer of technology, methods, and lessons learned in clinical translation both across technology areas, between technology and application, and between applications. Intellectual Merit:In order for the above noted advances to occur, our future students need to be trained in multidisciplinary fields and also taught to develop skills to collaborate with people from different backgrounds. This means bringing physical science and biological science students together, giving them opportunities to be informed about other disciplines, and finding ways to convince students to break out of the discipline-specific boundaries in which they often find themselves. This meeting is designed to meet those needs.Broader Impact: The meeting will provide exposure of students to a very active multidisciplinary field, allowing them to see how their educational training can lead to the benefits for society. Such exposure helps motivate students to pursue careers in science with resultant benefits to scientific knowledge and technical benefits to mankind. The meeting itself will help advance the field through sharing of results, methods, and initiation of collaborations. The multi-disciplinary nature of the meeting will provide cross-fertilization of concepts and techniques between fields with the resulting synergies obtained from such interactions.