NEWS: The latest developments in optical biopsy
Middle
MAY 6, 2009--The conference on optical biopsy will be "reborn" at
the Biomedical
Optics Symposium (BiOS) during the next Photonics West, and session chair Robert
Alfano is seeking proposals for a deadline of July 13. The goal of the
conference is to present novel state-of-the art work in non-invasive
spectroscopic methods to detect the onset and progression of disease including
pre-malignancy, malignancy, and tissue response to external conditions such as
therapeutic intervention, unintended injury, and laser energy deposition.
Conference BO119, Optical
Biopsy VIII, will discuss the differences in optical signatures of normal
and diseased tissues, and the underlying biochemical and structural changes of
tissues and cells responsible for the observed spectroscopic signatures. It
will cover a wide array of established techniques and novel approaches to
diagnose tissues changes including in vivo and ex vivo fluorescence
spectroscopy, spectral imaging, Raman spectroscopy and photonic methods to
modify the tissue properties or functions implemented in vivo or ex-vivo
covering the technology development steps from bench to bedside.
Compact smart spectral explorers, multi-spectral imagers and hyper spectral
imaging will be highlighted and covered in part with invited speakers.
Among specific topics the conference leadership would like to cover methods
such as fluorescence, phosphorescence, excitation, absorption, THz, Raman, and
Stokes shift spectroscopy; fluorescence, polarization spectral, and nano-scale
(e.g., STED) imaging; near infrared diagnostic and diffusive reflectance
methods; inelastic light scattering; time resolved techniques; and nonlinear
optical biopsy mapping. Other possible topics are origin of tissue optical
properties; instrumentation for in-vivo optical biopsy; video spectral
imaging and mapping of tissue; cell smears spectroscopy; physiological state of
tissue; chemo- and molecular targeting agents; spectroscopy with
micro-endoscopes; and nanoparticle tagging. Supercontuum lasers for medical and
biological work is another area of interest, as are stimulated Raman Gain
spectroscopy, noninvasive diabetes detection, speckle spectroscopy for diagnoses,
and time reversal techniques. Finally, the organizers also wish to discuss work
in tissue modification with light pulses, laser tissue welding, and dynamics of
laser-tissue interaction.
Besides Conference chair Robert
R. Alfano of City College/CUNY and co-chair Stavros G. Demos of Lawrence
Livermore National Lab, the program committee consists of Amir H. Gandjbakhche,
National Institutes of Health (United States); Israel Gannot, The George
Washington University (United States) and Tel Aviv University (Israel); Michael
S. Feld, MIT (United States), Richard B. Rosen, The New York Eye and Ear
Infirmary (United States); Urs Utzinger, The University of Arizona (United
States); Wubao B. Wang, City College/CUNY (United States); Britton Chance,
University of Pennsylvania (United States); Masood Siddique, City College/CUNY
(United States); Stefan Andersson, Lund University (Sweden); Webb W. Watt,
Cornell University (United States); and Christoper H. Contag, Stanford
University (United States).
The abstract deadline is July 13, and the manuscript due date is December
28, 2009. BiOS/Photonics West 2010 will take place January 23-28 at the Moscone
Convention Center in San Francisco, CA.
Get more information on the conference, and follow a link to submit an
abstract, at the Optical Biopsy session page at the SPIE site, or contact Kestutis Sutkus at the CUNY
Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers. See also the Call for Papers program for the entire BiOS symposium.
Posted by Barbara G. Goode, barbarag@pennwell.com,
for BioOptics World.
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