Interdisciplinary Training in Biomedical Imaging

描述(由申请人提供)： 在过去的几十年里，生物医学成像已经发展成为生物医学研究和临床医学不可或缺的工具。此外，随着成像技术及其生物医学基础的进步，生物医学成像正在迅速发展，并将继续给生物医学带来革命性的变化。随着其广泛的应用和正在进行的高水平的研究活动，在生物医学成像领域非常需要训练有素的博士水平的科学家/工程师。另一方面，作为一个高度学科的领域，生物医学成像的培训不可避免地具有跨学科的性质。鉴于这些关键需求，以及佐治亚理工学院和埃默里大学提供的高度成功、协作和充满活力的教育和研究环境，特别是在生物医学工程联合系，本提案寻求支持T32培训拨款，以资助“生物医学成像的跨学科博士前培训”。一旦被选中，学员将在佐治亚理工学院/埃默里生物医学工程系的母系注册参加跨部门生物工程研究生项目。将提供的培训包括正式课程工作、以问题为基础的学习、实验室轮换、研讨会和论文研究。为了确保跨学科培训，受训人员将接受至少一个方法学领域的培训(医学成像、图像处理、光学成像或分子成像)和一个。应用领域(癌症、心血管或神经科学)。为此，来自佐治亚理工学院和埃默里大学的教职员工在这些领域工作和合作。每个学生将选择两位导师，一位强调方法论，另一位专注于应用，作为他/她的导师，指导他/她的培训和论文研究。我们相信，这种新颖的跨学科方法将导致拥有博士学位的毕业生，他们在方法学和生物医学应用方面都拥有坚实的背景，并将在生物医学成像领域拥有丰硕的职业生涯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the past few decades, biomedical imaging has evolved into an indispensable tool for biomedical research and clinical medicine. Furthermore, with advances in imaging technology and its biomedical basis, biomedical imaging is rapidly growing and will continue to revolutionize biomedicine. With its broad applications and high level of ongoing research activities, there is a great need for trained Ph.D. level scientist/engineers in the field of biomedical imaging. On the other hand, as a highly disciplinary field, training in biomedical imaging has to be inevitably interdisciplinary in nature. Given these critical needs and the highly successful, collaborative, and dynamic education and research environment available at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, particularly in the joint department of biomedical engineering, this proposal seeks support for a T32 training grant to fund "Interdisciplinary predoctoral training in biomedical imaging." Trainees, once selected, will enroll into the interdepartmental bioengineering graduate program with their home department in the Georgia Tech/Emory biomedical engineering department. The training to be provided includes formal course work, problem based learning, laboratory rotations, seminars and dissertation research. To ensure interdisciplinary training, the trainees will be trained in at least one methodological area (medical imaging, image processing, optical imaging, or molecular imaging) and one. application area (cancer, cardiovascular, or neuroscience). To this end, a faculty from both Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University working and collaborating in these areas is assembled. Each student will choose two mentor, with one emphasizing methodology and the other specializing in applications, as his/her advisors to guide his/her training and dissertation research. We believe that such a novel, interdisciplinary approach will lead to graduates with Ph.D. degrees, who possess solid background in both methodology and biomedical applications and will have a fruitful career in biomedical imaging.