ICMIP-09
October 23-25, 2009
Nanjing, China

Yangtze River 2009 International Conference on Medical Imaging Physics & The 5th National Annual Meeting of Medical Imaging Physics will be held in Nanjing, China on October 23-25, 2009. The conference is sponsored by Chinese Society of Medical Physics(CSMP), Life Electronics Society of Chinese Institute of Electronics (LES,CIE), North American Chinese Medical Physicists Association (NACMPA) and Overseas Chinese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (OCSMRM).

This conference is intended to facilitate scientific exchange, to promote medical physics research, application and education, and to provide a platform for medical physicists and scientists in related fields worldwide to foster communications, collaborations and friendship.
The contents of the conference will cover the radiodiagnostics (including X-ray, CR, DR, CT, MRI, etc), image-guided therapy (IGT) and image-guided radiotherapy (4D CT, Cone-beam CT, IGRT, etc), ultrasound in medicine and engineering (including ultrasound diagnosis, interventional ultrasound, ultrasound engineering, HIFU, etc), nuclear medicine, interventional radiology, medical imaging and computer image processing, medical imaging information management system (PACS/RIS, IHE, etc), biomedical photonics, nanotechnology, bioinformatics and so on.

Call for Papers：
The conference abstracts should only include the latest, non-published research results and scientific findings in the above-mentioned fields. The articles should be in the form of abstract and full text. Both Chinese and English are allowed. The excellent papers (only in English) that are judged and recommended by experts can be published on Transactions of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which is indexed by EI.

The abstracts should consist of the following 4 components: objectives, materials and methods, results and conclusions. The words in full text should be limited to 4000 and the format of the article should be according to the requirements for manuscripts submitted to Transactions of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (See Appendix V). The article should be submitted to ICMIP-09@nuaa.edu.cn. The deadline for submission is July 15th, 2009. Once accepted, the authors will be informed after September 1st, 2009 by email. Presentations will include keynote speeches, invited talks and oral presentations, which will be separately arranged in the main venue and sub-venue.

Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, with convenient transportation and beautiful environment has upgraded the speed in urban modernization and internationalization after held the famous historical world Expo. The organization committee is committed to make the congress a great success by providing modern conference facilities, great scientific programs, comfortable accommodation and delightful cuisine.

We look forward to meeting you in Nanjing!
Conference Chairs:
Prof. Shanglian Bao, Prof. Chris Shaw
March, 2009