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Gordon Research Conference on Lasers in Medicine and Biology
July 2-7, Holderness College, Plymouth, NH
http://www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2006/lasermed.htm

OPTICAL IMAGING 2006: The Fifth Inter-Institute Workshop on Optical Imaging

We would like to invite you to present a poster during Optical Imaging 2006: The Fifth Inter-Institute Workshop on Optical Diagnostic Imaging From Bench to Bedside at the National Institutes of Health. The workshop will be held from September 25-27, 2006 at the Natcher Auditorium, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Attendance will include all leading scientists working in the field of biomedical optics.

Topics that will be discussed at the workshop include:

• The latest developments in optical functional in vivo imaging methods, especially for small animal and human cancers;
• Theoretical and technological limits of high resolution multiparameter single and multiple photon imaging;
• Two-dimensional and three-dimensional imaging of molecular beacons;
• Optical devices and methods in drug discovery: role of industry; and
• Opportunities and critical technological developments with the greatest potential for transferability to clinical and research utility.

For further information and to see a preliminary program, please visit www.spie.org/events/NIH.

The Molecular and Functional Optical Imaging Interest Group meets every third Wednesday at noon.

This month’s Optical Imaging SIG meeting will be on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 12 noon in Bldg. 10 Room B3MB-38 (2.5 level, B-Wing). Our speaker will be Bahram Javidi, a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut in Electrical & Computer Engineering. His talk is entitled, “Real time automated 3D imaging and recognition of biological microorganisms using computational holography” and the abstract is below.

Abstract: In this seminar, we present an approach for real time automated three-dimensional (3D) visualization and recognition of biological microorganisms using single-exposure on-line (SEOL) digital holography. A coherent 3D microscope-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer records a single on-line Fresnel digital hologram of microorganisms. Three dimensional microscopic images are reconstructed numerically at different depths by an inverse Fresnel transformation. For recognition, microbiological objects are segmented by processing the background diffraction field. We apply a number of statistical and pattern recognition algorithm to identify biological samples. Preliminary experimental and simulation results using sphacelaria alga and tribonema aequale alga microorganisms are presented.

For more information on the SIG, visit http://tango01.cit.nih.gov/sig/home.taf?_function=main&SIGInfo_SIGID=138.

DIRECTIONS to Room B3MB-38 (2.5 level, B-Wing): The easiest directions to the meeting room are as follows. Enter from the front of Bldg. 10 through the doors to the right of the B1 cafeteria (it says Radiation Oncology above the doors). Take the elevator down to B3. Exit the elevator to the right and you will see a set of stairs on your right. Take the stairs up to the B2.5 level. Exit the stairs to the right and the room is down the hall on the left.

PTIG Schedule, 2006/2007

Unless otherwise indicated, workshops are held at 3:30 pm in Building 50, room 2328. Each speaker will present for ~20-25 min, with an additional 5-10 min for questions and discussion. There is a short break between speakers. Some refreshments will be provided.

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