IBMISPS: the International Brain Mapping & Intraoperative Surgical Planning Society

The congress program will consist of invited keynote lectures and presentations selected from submitted abstracts.  Coverage will range from basic translational research and multidisciplinary clinical practice and surgery to healthcare policy and neuroeconomics. The congress will also include:

Scientific exhibits & posters on the listed topics

Special focus sessions with a focus on:

• Brain and Spinal Cord Mapping

• Image guided therapy/surgery

• NeuroEngineering, Device and Implants

• Basic Molecular Neuroscience

• Neurodegenerative Diseases

• Stem Cell and Nanotechnology

• Neurorepair and Regeneration

• Neuro-Physiology

• Healthcare policy

• FDA regulations

• Bioethics

• Neuroeconomics & Neuromarketing

• Bioinformatics and Grid Technology

Topics include:

IBMISPS annual meeting organizers encourage cross-disciplinary topics such as:

·    General issues

·    Operational issues

·    Image guided systems

·    Vascular & Blood flow imaging

·    ISP & Image guided surgery (OR of the future)

·    BM and ISP in Stereotactic Radiosurgery (proton Therapy, Novalis, Tomo-therapy, Varian system, Xknife, gamma knife and cyberknife technologies will be compared and contrasted)

·    Molecular and cellular imaging including: the use of nano-particles for stem cell and T-cell imaging.

·    Anatomy

·    Nanoscience, genomics, computational informatics genetics in brain mapping

·    4D, Neuro-mathematics and bio-informatics

·    Neurophysiology (EEG, MEG,…)

·    Functional brain mapping (fMRI, PET…)

·    Brain Mapping and Intra-operative Surgical Planning using Endoscopy

·    Biophotonics

·    Neural Prosthesis & Robotics (Human Brain machine Interface technology)

·    Multi-modality imaging and ultrasound

·    Perfusion imaging, micromagnetic resonance imaging

·    Magnetic resonance Spectroscopic Imaging

·    High-field and low-field magnetic resonance

·    Ethical issues related to the brain mapping and intra-operative surgical planning, Magneto encephalographic

·    Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

·    Diffusion Tensor Imaging

·    SPECT functional Brain Mapping and histopathology in brain mapping

·    Healthcare Policy, Ethics and Regulatory affairs

·    Psychiatry (PTSD,…)

·    Imaging modalities for detecting mild/mod TBI, micro-TBI

·    Brain mapping/functional imaging for rehab medicine and PTSD

·    Minimally invasive therapy for TBI

·    Multimodality imaging for TBI and PTSD (DTI technology,…)

·    Rehabilitation Medicine (neural repair and regeneration for TBI,…Patients)

·    Brain mapping and image guided therapy in cardiology, pulmonary and internal medicine

·    Image guided therapy/surgery in the operating room and hospitals of the future

·    Healthcare policy

·    FDA regulations for new devices and drugs

·    Bioethics and neuroeconomics

·    Biomedical, chemical and materials engineering

·    Neuroscience

·    Bioinformatics and grid technology

·    Physiology

·    Health IT

·    Medical Simulation