August 30, 2017
Organizers: Pratik Shah (MIT Media Lab), Enrique Castro-Camus (CIO)
We are pleased to announce this special event that will take place Wednesday 30, 17:30hrs. In it a number of invited speakers will discuss not only recent progresses in the uses of terahertz radiation in biomedical applications, but also the perspectives in the mid and long term for this technology. The symposium is sponsored by the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology MISTI program in collaboration with Centro de Investigaciones en Optica A.C. and includes the speakers listed below who bring together expertise both in the field of terahertz, medical imaging and clinical data processing.
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Peter Siegel (California Institute of Technology) | Millimeter - And Submillimeter-Wave Applications In Biology And Medicine: Potential And Challenges |
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Zach Taylor (University of California at LA) | THz Imaging As An Adjunct For T2 Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
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Magda O. El-Shenawee (University of Arkansas) | Statistical Signal Processing For Quantitative Assessment Of Pulsed Terahertz Imaging Of Human Breast Tumors |
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Hassan Rivaz (Concordia University) | Estimation Of Deformable Transformation Between Medical Images |
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Lauren O'Donnell (Harvard Medical School) | Diffusion Imaging Of The Brain For Mapping Of White Matter Tracts: Correlation Of Structure And Function |