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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">The
<b>IIIOS</b> and <b>Nanoporation</b> projects would like to invite you for their two one-week
<b>Summer Schools</b>, each comprising a five-day series of research symposia, with a registration structure designed to allow students, researchers / faculty, and industrial colleagues to attend.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">The first week, related to the Integrated Interventional Imaging Operating System (IIIOS) project, will address the challenges of
MRI guided interventions through the different perspectives of technology involved, procedure development and training needed.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">The second week, related to ultrasound-mediated, MRI-guided targeted drug delivery in the Nanoporation project, will embrace the
multi-disciplinary challenges associated with the application of focused ultrasound for targeted drug delivery under MR-guidance.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Each day addresses a particular interfacial topic, according to the schedule below, and will feature world-leading researchers from
each field, along with the opportunity for hands-on experience within the state-of-the-art facilities at the Institute for Medical Science and Technology (IMSaT), University of Dundee.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">IIIOS Summer School: week from August 27<sup>th</sup> – 31<sup>st</sup> 2012:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Day 1 – Techniques for Optical Biopsy</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Day 2 – Workflow for Image Guidance</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Day 3 – MR-Guided Interventions</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Day 4 – MR-Guided Vascular Interventions</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Day 5 – Hands-On Deep Brain Stimulation</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Nanoporation Summer School: week from September 3<sup>rd</sup> – 7<sup>th</sup> 2012:
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Day 1 – Ultrasound for Focal Drug Delivery</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Day 2 – Therapeutic Cavitation</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Day 3 – Nano-Carriers</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Day 4 – MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Day 5 – Hands-on MRgFUS</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">The symposia will take place in IMSaT, University of Dundee, hosting GE's first European Preclinical Centre of Excellence for MR
guided Interventions and the InSightec ExAblate<sup>® </sup>2000 and 2100 FUS systems. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Please see the attached leaflet for more details and visit the event web pages at</span></p>
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Registration <b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">closes on July 31<sup>st</sup>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.igi-tdd.eu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">http://www.igi-tdd.eu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
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For further information and/or queries please do not hesitate to contact us at </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="mailto:igi-tdd@dundee.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">igi-tdd@dundee.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">We look forward to seeing you in Dundee!</span></p>
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The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096
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