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medical imaging community has recently been deeply saddened by the
untimely loss of our colleague Bruce Hasegawa, one of the most creative
contributors and selfless mentors in our field. Youngho Seo and
Grant Gullberg have written a moving eulogy to Bruce that you will
find below. They have also suggested that it would be a fitting
honor to rename our IEEE Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science
Award in memory of Bruce. The NMISC has strongly supported this
proposal, and has made such a motion to the NPSS AdCom. Subject
to AdCom and IEEE TAB approval, the award will be known in the future
as the “The Bruce H. Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging
Science Award.”
The 2008 NSS/MIC/RTSD meeting in Dresden, October 19-25, is on track
to be the largest ever. Over 2000 abstracts have been submitted
from nearly 60 different countries – both record numbers.
Uwe Bratzler is the General Chair. Wolfgang Enghardt and Sibylle
Ziegler are, respectively, the Program and Deputy Program Chairs
of the MIC. Look for details elsewhere in this newsletter, or consult
the web site http://www.nss-mic.org/2008/.
There will also be two satellite workshops held in conjunction with
the NSS/MIC this year, one before and one after the main meeting.
Of particular interest to NMISTC members is the two-day workshop
on Hybrid Imaging with MR-PET to be held at the Forschungszentrum
Jülich (located near Cologne) on October 27-28. Information
about this workshop is available at http://www.fz-juelich.de/conference/mrpet_08
or via email at MR-PET@fz-juelich.de.
The 2009 NSS/MIC will be in Orlando, Florida, in the Hilton Hotel
near Downtown Disney. Richard Lanza is the General Chair and Ramsey
Badawi is the MIC Program Chair.
Knoxville, Tennessee, will host the 2010 NSS/MIC. Ron Keyser is
the General Chair and David Townsend will serve as the MIC Program
Chair. The meeting itself will be held in the spacious Knoxville
Convention Center, but housing will distributed among several downtown
hotels.
The leading candidate for the 2011 NSS/MIC is Valencia, Spain. Valencia
is Spain’s third largest city, beautifully situated on the
eastern Mediterranean coast, with many cultural and recreational
attractions. The meeting space would be in the Valencia Conference
Center and the neighboring Sorollo and Hilton Hotels. David Townsend
will be the General Chair.
In 2012 the meeting will likely be back in western North America.
Candidate cities include Albuquerque, Seattle, Vancouver, Spokane,
and possibly Anaheim, Reno or even San Diego again. The joint RITC/NMISTC
Oversight Committee is planning site visits to several of these,
and we expect to have their recommendation by the time of our annual
meeting in Dresden.
You can find more information on the NMIS Technical Committee and
Council, including current Council membership, information on NMISTC-sponsored
awards, and a copy of our constitution and bylaws, at our web site:
http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/nmisc/
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Charles Watson can be reached at Siemens Molecular Imaging,
810 Innovation Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37932-2562 USA; Phone: +1 865-218-2419;
Fax: +1 865-218-3000; E-mail: charles.c.watson@siemens.com.
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