Latest News (15 June 08)
Final technical programme posted
Online registration closeed on 22 June 2008
Onsite registration can be done during the following hours:
- Wednesday, 2 July 2008, from 08:00 to 12:00 hrs
- Thursday, 3 July 2008, from 08:00 to 12:00 hrs
Call for Abstracts
The application of advanced optical methods in Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacology and other Health Care Sciences has been expanding rapidly in recent years. With an objective to provide a platform to interact scientific knowledge between basic scientists and clinicians, we cordially invite submissions to the tenth Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS-10) conference, which is cosponsored by the International Commission of Optics (ICO). This meeting aims to serve as a forum for stimulating thoughts and disseminating research in areas connecting both photonics and clinical health care: FROM BENCH TOP TO CLINICAL PRACTICE.
Conference Themes
OWLS-10 welcomes contributions from researchers, clinicians and students in all related fields, given the multidisciplinary nature of the application of photonics in life sciences. The conference program includes peer-reviewed papers and a selected number of invited plenary lectures. Topics appropriate for submission are manifold. Examples of some of the areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Laser based diagnostics and therapy
- Laser based biomedical applications
- Holographic techniques in medical diagnostics
- Optics in environmental science
- Imaging technologies in medicine and biology
- Optical spectroscopy in biology and medicine
- Living cell imaging (green fluorescent protein)
- Fluorescence resonance energy transfer microscopy
- Digital signal processing and image reconstruction
- Fluorescence lifetime imaging
- Novel microscopy
- Confocal microscopy
- Near-field scanning microscopy
- Nonlinear microscopy (multi-photon, SHG, THG, CARS)
- Optical coherence tomography
- Optics in the humanities
- Optics in vision research
- Optical biosensors
- Bio-photomechanics (Moiré interferometry, Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry)
- Laser tweezers and trapping
- Interaction of laser radiation with biological media and materials (multiple scattering and imaging through turbid media)
- Photodynamic therapy
- Novel clinical applications
- Nanophotonics
Important
Submissions imply the intent of at least one author to register, attend the conference, present the paper (either orally or in poster format).
- Abstract Due Date: 30 April 2008
- Notification of Acceptance: 15 May 2008
