EEE Nuclear Science Symposium /Medical Imaging Conferenc

描述（由申请人提供）：IEEE核科学研讨会和医学成像会议是一个年度会议，其历史可以追溯到1948年。它是由IEEE组织的，IEEE是一个大型的、国际性的、非营利性的专业组织。平均出席人数为900人，他们的主要兴趣平均分配在会议的核科学研讨会（NSS）部分和医学成像会议（MIC）部分。从广义上讲，MIC的主要主题领域是核医学成像（主要是PET和SPECT），尽管有一些关于x射线技术的论文。重点是仪器和算法，但医学问题、临床研究和其他方面（如放射性药物的开发和生产）并不罕见。大部分与会者通常通过NIBIB或NCI从NIH获得一些资助。会议的MIC部分为期五天。2003年的科学计划包括大约350份海报报告，大约75份口头报告和5份邀请全体会议报告。此外，还有一些短期课程可供与会者额外付费。去年，有两个全天课程和两个半天课程与医学成像有关。有关会议的更多信息，请访问http://wwww.nss-misc.org/。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference is an annual meeting that traces its history back to 1948. It is organized by the IEEE, which is a large, international, non-profit, professional organization. The average attendance is 900 people, with their primary interest equally divided between the Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) portion and Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) portions of the meeting. Broadly speaking, the main topic area of the MIC is nuclear medical imaging (mostly PET and SPECT), although there are several papers on x-ray techniques. The emphasis is on instrumentation and algorithms, but medical questions, clinical studies, and other aspects (such as radiopharmaceutical development and production) are not uncommon. A large fraction of the attendees derive some funding from NIH, usually through NIBIB or NCI. The duration of the MIC portion of the meeting is five days. The 2003 scientific program consisted of approximately 350 poster presentations, approximately 75 contributed oral presentations, and five invited plenary presentations. In addition, there are a number of Short Courses that are available to attendees for an additional fee. Last year, there were two full-day courses and two half-day classes related to medical imaging. More information on the conference is available at http://wwww.nss-misc.org/. We request $20,000 in support for the 2004 meeting, which will be held in Rome, Italy on Oct. 16-22, 2004. The support will go exclusively to students via two programs: 1) partial subsidy of travel expenses and 2) significantly discounted "tuition" for Short Courses. This is only the second time (in 50 years) that the conference will be held outside of North America. While overall attendance was excellent the first time that it was held outside of North America (in Lyon, France in 2000), the attendance of US participants was lower than usual and the attendance of students from the US was significantly lower. Thus, we would like to enable more MIC students to attend in 2004 by offering to pay a portion of their travel expenses. In addition, we would like to enable more MIC students to take Short Courses, and thus would offer them a heavily discounted price for Short Courses. We plan to spend money on travel awards (22 to 34 awards) and on Short Course tuitions (12 tuitions discounted). The exact number of awards and the amount of each award will depend on the number of applications that we receive.