Tutorials
Wednesday, March 30, 08:30 - 12:15
T-1: Photoacoustic Tomography: Ultrasonically Breaking through the Optical Diffusion Limit
Lihong Wang and Mark Anastasio, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Photoacoustic tomography has been developed for in vivo early-cancer detection and functional imaging by physically combining non-ionizing electromagnetic and ultrasonic waves. The hybrid modalities provide relatively deep penetration at high ultrasonic resolution and yield speckle-free images with high electromagnetic contrast. This tutorial offers a comprehensive introduction to photoacoustic tomography from principles, image reconstructions, to applications.
T-2: Magnetic Particle Imaging: Principles, Systems and Applications
Thorsten M. Buzug and Tobias Knopp, Institute of Medical Engineering, University of Lübeck, Germany
Magnetic particle imaging falls into the category of functional imaging where the magnetic nanoparticles may serve as tracers of metabolic processes. Since the particles of choice consist of superparamagnetic iron oxide cores coated with biopolymers, imaging of the metabolism may be possible without any radioactive agents. This tutorial introduces the principles, systems and applications of magnetic particle imaging and presents recent results and existing challenges.
T-3: Structured Compressed Sensing: From Theory to Applications
Yonina Eldar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Compressed sensing is an exciting and emerging field that allows signals to be recovered from few measurements. It has found applications in various medical imaging platforms. This tutorial reviews the basics of compressed sensing along with some of these extensions where the theme is exploiting signal and measurement structure in compressed sensing, and focuses on bridging theory and practice.
T-4: Optics for In Vivo Imaging and Monitoring in Biology and Medicine
Turgut Durduran, Institute of Photonics Science (ICFO), Castelldefels, Spain
Jorge Ripoll, Institute for Electronic Structure and Laser – FORTH, Crete, Greece
Optics has become an important tool for in vivo imaging and monitoring in biology and medicine. This tutorial introduces the fundamentals of optics in biomedicine and focuses on near-infrared tissue spectroscopy and imaging. It also reviews broad applications of optics from biology to clinical settings.