INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Second Mediterranean International Workshop on Photoacoustic & Photothermal Phenomena:

Focus on BIOMEDICAL and NANOSCALE IMAGING and NDE

 

ERICE - SICILY: APRIL 19-26 2012

 

DIRECTORS OF THE COURSE: R. LI VOTI – A. MANDELIS

DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL: S. MARTELLUCCI – A.N. CHESTER

EMFCSC PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE: A. ZICHICHI

 

Session A : Biomedical and Biological PA & PT

Rinat Essenaliev - The University of Texas Medical Branch, TX, USA

Optoacoustic Platform for Noninvasive, Continuous Monitoring of Multiple Physiologic Parameters

Srirang Manohar - University of Twente, The Netherlands

Photoacoustic Breast Imaging: the Twente experience

Guenther Paltauf - Karl-Franzens Univ. Graz, Austria

Focusing acoustic elements for photoacoustic imaging

Amir Rosenthal - Helholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany

Advances in multispectral optoacoustic tomography

Vladimir Zharov - University of Arkansa for Medical Sciences, USA

Photoacoustic flow cytometry for early diagnosis of cancer, infections and cardiovascular diseases

Session B : Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Imaging

Olivier Chapuis - CNRS - INSA Lyon, France

Heat Conduction in Nanostructures Investigated with Electrical Means –
A Comparison with Optical Techniques

Ariane Deniset - Université Paris-Sud, France
When AFM met IR: Nanospectroscopy AFMIR for subcellular imaging

Michel Orrit - Leiden University, The Netherlands

Photothermal Spectroscopy of Single Gold Nanoparticles

 

Session C : Non Destructive Evaluation & Testing

Osamu Matsuda - Hokkaido University, Japan

Time-resolved two-dimensional imaging of GHz surface acoustic waves in phononic crystals and structures based on them

Arantza Mendioroz Astigarraga - University of the Basque Country, Spain

Internal heat sources reconstruction: an approach to defect characterization from vibrothermography data

 

Session D: Thermophysical Properties

Dorin Dadarlat - National RD Institute for Isotopic and Molecular Technology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Recent Developments in the Photopyroelectric Calorimetry of Condensed Matter

Fulvio Mercuri - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy

Active infared thermography applied to the study of Cultural Heritage