Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program

摘要 跨学科生物医学成像培训计划将准备博士前学员成为领导者 在生物体水平，生物医学成像技术和应用研究。多学科小组， 工程师、物理学家、生物学家和临床医生需要推进生物医学成像，特别是 体内细胞和分子成像的出现。我们将创造下一代跨学科的生物医学 成像科学家和工程师谁将有助于和领导这样的团队。我们的培训计划将建立在 持续的，重要的机构，州，联邦和商业投资在教师和成像 基础设施演进培训补助金将使学生直接处于正在进行的 跨学科/多学科研究计划。学员将使用案例中心的成像设施， 成像研究，包括最先进的临床和小动物成像系统，沿着 指导教师。博士前学员将来自生物医学工程的高评价部门， 物理学，这两个学科在生物医学成像方面都有着悠久的训练历史。学员将进行研究 将成像技术与生物医学研究相结合的项目。每个学员将有两个或两个以上的 更多的导师代表成像技术和成像的生物/临床应用。我们 教育计划包括成像课程组合，包括专注于成像物理，图像 分析和重建，以及纳米医学。我们将促进跨学科研究的文化 在指定的成像时间内。我们的T32使我们能够增加女性和以下的招聘， 代表少数民族。总的来说，与研究生相比， 博士学位，并确保在这一急需领域对国内博士进行培训。在不到九年的时间里，我们的T32项目 已经成功培训了几名毕业生，他们都有着模范的培训记录和轨迹 走向成功其他学员正在通过该计划的重点是令人兴奋的跨学科成像 研究和优秀的研究生产力。

Abstract The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program will prepare predoctoral trainees to become leaders in organism-level, biomedical imaging technology and application research. Multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, physicists, biologists, and clinicians are required to advance biomedical imaging, especially with the advent of in vivo cellular and molecular imaging. We will create the next generation of interdisciplinary biomedical imaging scientists and engineers who will contribute to and lead such teams. Our training program will build upon continuing, significant institutional, state, federal, and commercial investment in faculty and imaging infrastructure. A training grant award will place students squarely in the center of on-going interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary research programs. Trainees will use imaging facilities in the Case Center for Imaging Research which includes state-of-the-art clinical and small animal imaging systems, along with labs of mentoring faculty. Predoctoral trainees will be from the highly-rated departments of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, both of which have a long history of training in biomedical imaging. Trainees will conduct research projects combining enabling technologies in imaging with biomedical research. Each trainee will have two or more mentors representing both imaging technology and biological/clinical applications of imaging. Our educational program includes a portfolio of imaging courses, including ones focusing on imaging physics, image analysis, and reconstruction, as well as nanomedicine. We will promote a culture of interdisciplinary research during a designated Imaging Hour. Our T32 has enabled us to increase recruitment of women and under- represented minorities. In general, it has helped make graduate students cost effective as compared to post docs and ensured training of domestic PhD's in this area of critical need. In less than nine years, our T32 program has already successfully trained several graduates, all with exemplary training records and with a trajectory towards success. Other trainees are moving through the program focusing on exciting interdisciplinary imaging research and with excellent research productivity.