BioMed 2012 has officially begun! I was kind of hoping for a ceremony with either drums or a flaming arrow, but the opening remarks were a great introduction and highlighted the fact that conference submissions have more than doubled from 200 in 1994 to more than 450 this year. The opening was then followed by plenary presentations by Drs. Lihong Wang and Mathias Fink. Dr. Wang highlighted the large number of applications photoacoustic tomography can be used to study (including sentinal lymph node imaging, oxygenation levels of single red blood cells, and targeted gold nanocages that can also release drugs once localized to a tumor), while Dr. Fink gave a technical overview of ultrasonic time-reversal methods and its applications in detecting microcalcifications, mapping soft tissue elasticity, and imaging seizures in the brains of a rat model of epilepsy.
Talks later this morning will focus on brain imaging, novel fluorescent contrast, and special techniques for digital holography, followed by a poster session and afternoon presentations.
I also want to thank the conference organizers for deciding against holding the conference outside since it's been raining all day and does not look to be letting up anytime soon. Hopefully the hotel restaurant can handle a large crowd because I'm not sure how many of us will be brave enough to go outside in this weather to get lunch off-site...
Talks later this morning will focus on brain imaging, novel fluorescent contrast, and special techniques for digital holography, followed by a poster session and afternoon presentations.
I also want to thank the conference organizers for deciding against holding the conference outside since it's been raining all day and does not look to be letting up anytime soon. Hopefully the hotel restaurant can handle a large crowd because I'm not sure how many of us will be brave enough to go outside in this weather to get lunch off-site...
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