The use of optical techniques and tools in biomedical imaging and diagnostics has been in continuous expansion for several decades. The research being produced in this field requires presentation and review at major conferences, and specifically it is important to allow co-location with large technology exhibits. The European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO) have become the largest such event in Europe for researchers, scientists, engineers and clinicians who are developing applications of optical science and photonic technologies to problems in biomedical science and medicine.
This meeting provides a forum to span the gap between basic research and instrumentation engineering, all the way to clinical translation research and mature clinical trials. The common theme of the conferences is that they all are employing optics as a tool or solution in biology, medicine or clinical work. This meeting is biennial and jointly sponsored by the Optical Society and SPIE and will be co-located with Laser Munich 2011-World of Photonics, as well as numerous other society meetings organized by WLT, EOS, OSA, CLEO-Europe, IEEE/LEOS, and EPS.
General Chairs:
 | Christoph K. Hitzenberger
Medical University of Vienna (Austria)
|  | Brian W. Pogue
Dartmouth University
(United States)
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Program Chairs:
 | Peter E. Andersen
Technical University of Denmark
|  | Irene Georgakoudi
Tufts University
(United States)
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Executive Organizing Committee:
Arjen Amelink, Erasmus MC (Netherlands)
Stefan Andersson-Engels, Lund Univ. (Sweden)
Wolfgang Baeumler, Univ. Clinics Regensburg (Germany)
Vanderlei S. Bagnato, Univ. de São Paulo (Brazil)
Jennifer K. Barton, The Univ. of Arizona (USA)
Paul C. Beard, Univ. College London (United Kingdom)
Emmanuel Beaurepaire, Ecole Polytechnique (France)
Niels Bendsoe, Lund Univ. Hospital (Sweden)
Andrew J. Berger, Univ. of Rochester (USA)
Claude A. Boccara, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (France)
Stephen Allen Boppart, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Brett E. Bouma, Massachusetts General Hospital (USA)
Ralf Brinkmann, Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany)
Santiago Camacho-López, Ctr. de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (Mexico)
Paul J. Campagnola, Univ. of Connecticut Health Ctr. (USA)
Frank Chuang, Ctr. for Biophotonics Science and Technology (USA)
Daniel Cote, Ctr. de Recherche de l'Univ. Laval Robert-Giffard (Canada)
Johannes F. de Boer, Vrije Univ. Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Volker Deckert, Institut für Photonische Technologien (Germany)
Hamid Dehghani, The Univ. of Birmingham (United Kingdom)
Christian D. Depeursinge, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Kishan Dholakia, Univ. of St. Andrews (United Kingdom)
Wolfgang Drexler, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria)
Turgut Durduran, ICFO - Instituto de Ciencias Fotónicas (Spain)
Kevin W. Eliceiri, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
Stanislav Y. Emelianov, The Univ. of Texas at Austin (USA)
Dirk J. Faber, Univ. van Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Robert Fedosejevs, Univ. of Alberta (Canada)
John V. Frangioni, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Ctr. (USA)
Paul M. French, Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
Martin Frenz, Univ. Bern (Switzerland)
James G. Fujimoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Jesper Glückstad, Technical Univ. of Denmark (Denmark)
Christoph Haisch, Technische Univ. München (Germany)
Stefan W. Hell, Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie (Germany)
Raimund Hibst, Univ. Ulm (Germany)
Andreas H. Hielscher, Columbia Univ. (USA)
Christoph K. Hitzenberger, Medical Univ. of Vienna (Austria)
Robert A. Huber, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München (Germany)
Xavier Intes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA)
Fabian Kiessling, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (Germany)
Karsten König, JenLab GmbH (Germany)
Venkataramanan Krishnaswamy, Dartmouth College (USA)
Theo Lasser, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Rainer A. Leitgeb, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria)
Kai Licha, migenion GmbH (Germany)
Adam Liebert, Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering (Poland)
Lothar D. Lilge, Ontario Cancer Institute (Canada)
Charles P. Lin, Wellman Ctr. for Photomedicine (USA)
Steen J. Madsen, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas (USA)
Kristen Carlson Dawn Maitland, Texas A&M Univ. (USA)
Igor Meglinski, Univ. of Otago (New Zealand)
Jerome Mertz, Boston Univ. (USA)
Seemantini K. Nadkarni, Harvard Medical School (USA)
Vasilis Ntziachristos, Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH (Germany)
D. Michael Olive, LI-COR Biosciences (USA)
Alexander A. Oraevsky, TomoWave Labs., Inc. (USA)
Gregory M. Palmer, Duke Univ. (USA)
Günther Paltauf, Karl-Franzens-Univ. Graz (Austria)
Francesco Saverio Pavone, LENS Lab., Univ. degli Studi di Firenze (Italy)
Carsten M. Philipp, Elisabeth Klinik (Germany)
Adrian Gh. Podoleanu, Univ. of Kent (United Kingdom)
Brian W. Pogue, Dartmouth College (USA)
Jürgen Popp, Institut für Photonische Technologien (Germany)
Nirmala Ramanujam, Duke Univ. (USA)
Lise L. Randeberg, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology (Norway)
Dominic J. Robinson, Univ. Medisch Ctr. Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Andrew M. Rollins, Case Western Reserve Univ. (USA)
Ricardas Rotomskis, Vilnius Univ. (Lithuania)
David D. Sampson, The Univ. of Western Australia (Australia)
Natalia M. Shakhova, Institute of Applied Physics (Russian Federation)
Melissa C. Skala, Duke Univ. (USA)
Peter T. C. So, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Stefan B. Spaniol, CeramOptec GmbH (Germany)
Subhadra Srinivasan, Dartmouth College (USA)
Ronald Sroka, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München (Germany)
Ernst H. K. Stelzer, European Molecular Biology Lab. (Germany)
Herbert Stepp, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München (Germany)
Henricus J. C. M. Sterenborg, Erasmus MC (Netherlands)
Vinod Subramaniam, Univ. Twente (Netherlands)
Paola Taroni, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
James Tunnel, The Univ. of Texas at Austin (USA)
Urs Utzinger, The Univ. of Arizona (USA)
Gooitzen M. van Dam, Univ. Medical Ctr. Groningen (Netherlands)
Ton G. van Leeuwen, Academisch Medisch Centrum (Netherlands)
Gijs van Soest, Erasmus MC (Netherlands)
Rudolf M. Verdaasdonk, Vrije Univ. Medical Ctr. (Netherlands)
I. Alex Vitkin, Univ. of Toronto (Canada)
Alfred Vogel, Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany)
Heidrun Wabnitz, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany)
Alastair J. M. Watson, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Univ. Hospitals NHS Trust (United Kingdom)
Julia Welzel, General Hospital Augsburg (Germany)
Tony Wilson, Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Maciej Wojtkowski, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (Poland)
Martin Wolf, Univ. Hospital Zürich (Switzerland)
Chris Xu, Cornell Univ. (USA)
Yukio Yamada, The Univ. of Electro-Communications (Japan)
Yoshiaki Yasuno, Univ. of Tsukuba (Japan)
Bing Yu, Duke Univ. (USA)
Gang Zheng, Univ. of Toronto (Canada)
