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Sunday Evening:
Myocardial Laser Channels: Rationale Revascularization Therapy or Reptilian Fallacy
Session leader: Cornelius Borst (Utrecht University Hospital, The Netherlands)
Introduction - Myocardial Laser Channels: Open Chest and Closed Chest Approaches Kamuran A. Kadipasaoglu (Texas Heart Institute)
TMLR: Preliminary Findings in Human and Porcine Hibernating Myocardium E. Duco Jansen (University of Texas, Austin)
TMLR: Relative Merits and Limitations of C02, Holinium and Excimer Lasers Peter Whittaker (The Heart Institute, Good Sameritian Hospital, Los Angeles)
TMLR.- Potential Mechanisms and Clinical Benefit
Monday Morning:
Laser-based Microscopy
Session leader: Bruce Tromberg (University of California, Irvine)
Vickie LaMorte (Salk Institute)
Optical Imaging of Gene Expression in Living Cells and Tissues
Daniel Farkas (Carnegie Mellon University)
High Resolution Light Microscopyfor Imaging Cellular Events Enrico Gratton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Multi-photon microscopy
Monday Afternoon:
Poster Session #1
Monday Evening:
Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization
Session leader: Franz Hillenkamp (University of Miinster, Germany)
Brian Chait (Rockefeller University)
M4LDI Analysis of Proteins Eckhard Nordhoff (Odense University, Denmark)
M4DLI Analysis of Nucleic Acids Catherine Costello (Boston University)
AMDLIAnalysis of Glycocongiugates
Tuesday Morning:
Photodynamic Diagnostics and Therapy
Session leader: Hubert van den Bergh (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
Pharmacokinetics of PDT Reinhold Baumgartner (University Clinic Munich)
Clinical Experiences with 5-ALA Assisted Fluorescence Detection of Human Malignancies Joan Miller (Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary)
Photodynamic Therapy of Choroidal Neovascularization using Liposomal BPD - Experimental and Clinical
Findings
Calum MacAulay (British Columbia Cancer Agency)
A utofluorescence Photodetection and Early Cancer Screening
Tuesday Evening:
Cellular Laser Effects
Session leader: Thomas Flotte (Harvard Medical School)
Cell Biology of Photoacoustic Interactions
Nancy Oleinick (Case Western Reserve University)
Cell Biology of Photochemical Interactions Charles Lin (Harvard Medical School)
Cell Biology of Photothermal Interactions
Wednesday Morning:
Coherence Domain Imaging Techniques in Biomedicine
Session leader: Joseph Izatt (Case Western Reserve University): Introduction
Brett Bouma (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
In Vivo Imaging with Optical Coherence Tomography Ra~f Engelhardt (Medical Laser Center Liibeck, Germany)
Image Formation in Cptical Coherence Tomography Paul French (Imperial College, London)
Real- Time 3-D Imaging through Turbid Media using Time-Gated Photorefractive Holography
Wednesday Afternoon:
Poster Session #2
Wednesday Evening:
Photon-Migration Imaging
Session leader: Enrico Gratton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Steven Jacques (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Photoacoustic Methodsfor Optical Tomography Arjun Yodh (University of Pennsylvania)
Methods for Tomographic Reconstruction using Diffusive Light K Thomas Moesta (University of Berlin)
Frequency Domain Optical Mammography: Initial Clinical Results.
Thursday Morning:
Cosmetic Surgery
Session leader: Rox Anderson (Harvard Medical School)
E. Victor Ross (Harvard Medical School)
Laser Resurfacing of Skin
Christine Dierickx (Harvard Medical School)
Light-induced Hair Removal
Brian Zelickson (University of Minnesota)
Laser Treatment of Psoriasis
Thursday Evening:
Minimally Invasive Surgery
Session leaders: Jay Walsh (Northwestern University) & Alfted Vogel (Medical Laser Center Liibeck, Germany)
Warren S. Grundlest (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
Lasers in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Thorsteinn Halldorsson (Daimler Benz Research, Munich, Germany)
Micro Lasers: The Miniaturization of Solid State Laser Sources
Daniel Mittleman (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
Imaging with T-Rays
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