Announcements

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

The fifth scientific meeting and exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine will take place April 12–18, 1997, at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Center, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The meeting will combine traditional and new elements of interest to both basic scientists and clinicians to provide a program to appeal to all attendees. For further information and registration application, please contract: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2118 Milvia Street, Suite 201, Berkeley, CA 94704, U.S.A. Telephone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail]; Web Page: http://www.ismrm.org.

The Third International Conference on Quantification of Brain Function with PET–BRAINPET97

The conference will be held on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, June 20–22, 1997, Bethesda, Maryland. The focus of the conference will be the methodology used to study normal and pathologic brain function with PET. The main topic areas are the choice and development of new radiotracers; tracer kinetic modeling; instrumentation and quantification; and image analysis techniques. For further information please contact: Brenda Allen, NIH Clinical Center, Bldg. 10, Room 1C401, 10 Center Drive MSC 1180, Bethesda, MD 20892-1180; tel: [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail]; Home page: http://www-pet.cc.nih.gov/brainpet97/.