Program

May 3 :

8:30 Welcome – Presentation of IMI
Jean-Pierre Monchalin
Institut des matériaux industriels – CNRC (Boucherville)

8:45 Mark Hewko
Institute for Biodiagnostics - NRC (Winnipeg)
“Cardiac and Dental Applications of OCT at the NRC Institute for Biodiagnostics”

9:15 Romain Maciejko
Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal
"Recent developments in OCT at Ecole Polytechnique"

9:45 Costel Flueraru
Institute of Microstructures - NRC (Ottawa)
"Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography based on Quadrature Interferometry"

10:15 Coffee Break

10:30 Kostadinka Bizheva^a and Dr. Omar Ramahi^b
aDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
^bDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
University of Waterloo
"Current advances and challenges in retinal Ultra-High-Resolution-OCT imaging"

11:00 Guy Lamouche
Institut des matériaux industriels – CNRC (Boucherville)
“From industrial to biomedical applications”

11:30 Victor Yang - Alex Vitkin
University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Ontario Cancer Institute, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
"Doppler Optical Coherence Tomography - from bench to patient in Toronto"

12:00 Lunch (at IMI, included in the registration fee)

13:20 Yongwoo Park
Institut de la recherche scientifique – ÉMT (Montréal)
“Real-time optical frequency domain reflectometry using a chirped fiber Bragg grating stretcher”

13:40 Olga Pawluczyk
P&P Optica

14:00 Vuk Bartulovic
Novacam Technologies

14:20 – 16:00 Discussion (includes a coffee break)
OCT hardware, applications, multimodal imaging, networking
Moderator: Jean-Pierre Monchalin (IMI)

16:00 -17:00 Visit of IMI
 

May 4:
   Morning:
      9:00AM
      Professor Lihong Wang
      Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering of       Washington University in St. Louis .
      
      First part: Tutorial on Biomedical Optics
      
      Second part: Ultrasound-aided High-resolution Biophotonic Imaging

      12:00 Lunch (at IMI, included in the registration fee)

   Afternoon:
      13:00 Biophotoacoustic Depth Selective Imaging of Turbid Media and Tissues:
       Instrumentation and Measurements

      Andreas Mandelis (1) and Sergey A. Telenkov (1,2)
      (1) Center for Advanced Diffusion-Wave Technologies, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial       Engineering, Univ. of Toronto , Toronto M5S 3G8 , CANADA
      (2) Imaging Diagnostic Systems Inc, Plantation , FL 33313 , USA

      Dental Biothermophotonics: A Quantitative Photothermal Analysis of Early Dental       Demineralization

      Andreas Mandelis a,b , Anna Matvienko a , Raymond J. Jeon a , Stephen H. Abrams b , Bennett       T. Amaechi c

      a Center for Advanced Diffusion Wave Technologies, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial       Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
      b Quantum Dental Technologies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
      c Cariology Unit, Department of Community Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science       Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA

      13 :50 Undersampling in photo-acoustic tomography

      J. Provost and F. Lesage
      Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal

      14:20 Break

      14:40 Painted-on transducers technologies and applications,
      Cheng-Kuei Jen
      Industrial Materials Institute, National Research Council of Canada

      15:20 Lasers and adaptive interferometers for acousto-optic biomedical applications,
       A. Blouin
       Industrial Materials Institute, National Research Council of Canada

      15: 40 Wrap-up

      16:00 Visit of the relevant IMI laboratories