Meeting report
Head & neck optical diagnostics: vision of the future of surgery
1 The "Head and Neck Optical Diagnostics Society" Council, Head & Neck Centre, University College Hospital, 250 Euston Road, London, NW1 2PG, UK
2 UCLH Head and Neck Centre, London, UK
3 Department of Surgery, University College London Medical School, London, UK
4 Unit of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Division of Maxillofacial, Diagnostic, Medical and Surgical Sciences, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, London, UK
5 Center for Optical Diagnostics and Therapy, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
6 Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
7 Department of Histopathology, Imperial College and The Hammersmith Hospitals, London, UK
8 Department of Oral & Maxilofacial Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands
9 Virginia Piper Cancer Institute-Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minnesota, USA
10 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics, Boston University, Boston, USA
11 The Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, The University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
12 Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
13 National Medical Laser Centre, University College London, London, UK
14 Center for Optical Diagnostics and Therapy, Department of Radiation Oncology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
15 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
16 LIFE Center, University Clinic Munich, Munich, Germany
17 Research Centre for Automatic Control (CRAN), Nancy-University, UMR CNRS, France
18 Michelson Diagnostics, 11A Grays Farm Production Village, Grays Farm Road, Orpington, Kent, BR5 3BD, UK
19 Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester, UK
20 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine, USA
21 Dept. of Radiation Biology, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, Norway
22 Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
23 Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Leeds Dental Institute, Leeds, UK
24 Photodynamic Therapy and Diagnosis Laboratory, Division of Medical Sciences, National Cancer Centre, Singapore
25 Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, USA
26 National Cancer Centre, Singapore 169610, Singapore
27 Univiersity of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil
28 National Research Council Canada-Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
29 Division of Oncology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
30 Department of Head & Neck Oncology & Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
31 Division of BioPhysics and BioImaging, Ontario Cancer Institute, Ontario, Canada
32 Department of Medical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
33 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Florida, USA
34 Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Head & Neck Oncology 2009, 1:25 doi:10.1186/1758-3284-1-25
Published: 13 July 2009Abstract
Review paper and Proceedings of the Inaugural Meeting of the Head and Neck Optical Diagnostics Society (HNODS) on March 14th 2009 at University College London.
The aim of our research must be to provide breakthrough translational research which can be applied clinically in the immediate rather than the near future. We are fortunate that this is indeed a possibility and may fundamentally change current clinical and surgical practice to improve our patients' lives.
