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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2003
Registration: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ROOM R1

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

OPENING CEREMONY

Moderator: Raphaela Waidelich, Secretary General of the Congress

Christa Stewens, Bavarian State Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Family Affairs and Women.

Ingrid Anker, City Councillor of Munich

Isuf Kalo, Regional Adviser Quality of Health Systems, WHO

Mihail Pascu, European Commission, Cost Medicine and Health

Alfons Hofstetter, President of ISLSM and International YAG Laser Society, President of the Congress

Jürgen Waldschmidt, President of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lasermedizin

Isaac Kaplan, Honorary President and First President of ISLSM

Kazuhiko Atsumi, Honorary President of ISLSM, President of WFSLM

Narong Nimsakul, Honorary President of ISLSM, Immediate Past President of Asian-Pacific Association for Laser Medicine and Surgery and International YAG Laser Society

Harubumi Kato, President-elect of ISLSM, President of Japan Society for Laser Medicine

Takohiko Fujisawa, Secretary General of International YAG Laser Society

11:30 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.

Plenary Lecture

Chair:

I. Kaplan, Tel Aviv, Israel

Laser application in medicine

K. Atsumi, University of Tokyo, Japan

 

ROOM B0, R1

1:00 p.m. to 4:48 p.m.

BASIC SCIENCE/ NEW TECHNICAL CONCEPTS/ LASER SAFETY

PART I

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Chairs:

F. Frank, DGLM, Munich, Germany

H. Albrecht, Laser- und Medizin-Technologie GmbH Berlin, Germany

1:00 p.m. to 1:12 p.m.

Development of highly advanced soft x-ray lasers for biomedical and nano-laser medicine applications

H. Kuroda, Institute for Solid State Physics

University of Tokyo, Japan

1:12 p.m. to 1:24 p.m.

Delivery of high-peak-power laser pulses with hollow fiber and its potential application to medicine

S. Sato, S. Kawauchi, M. Ishihara, Y-W. Shi, Y. Matsuura, M. Miyagi

National Defense Medical College Research Institute

Tokorozawa, Japan

1:24 p.m. to 1:36 p.m.

Time-resolved microspectrofluorometry and fluorescence lifetime imaging using ps pulsed diode lasers in laser scanning microscopes

Angelika Rück, Frank Dolp, Matthias Kress, Nermin Akgün, Rudolf Steiner, Michael Beil

Institute for Laser Technologies in Medicine and Metrology

University of Ulm, Germany.

 

1:36 p.m. to 1:48 p.m.

Bone-tissue ablation with pulsed CO2-Lasers

Martin Werner, Said Afilal, Mikhail Ivanenko, Peter Hering

Caesar - Centre of Advanced European Studies and Research, Bonn and Institute of Laser Medicine, University of Duesseldorf, Germany

1:48 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The 308 nm excimer laser as a versatile tool in modern surgical applications

M. Münker, TuiLaser AG

Munich, Germany

PART II

2:10 p.m. to 3:22 p.m.

Chairs:

M. Pascu, European Commission

Bruxelles, Belgium

A. Rück, Institute for Laser Technologies in Medicine and Metrology

University of Ulm, Germany

2:10 p.m. to 2:22 p.m.

Confocal microendoscopy - technical and histo-optical developments for in vivo diagnostics

R. Meier, R. Knuechel-Clarke, I. Krohne, H. Stepp, R. Baumgartner,
A. Hofstetter, Laser Research Laboratory, Department of Urology, University of Munich and Institute of Pathology, University of Regensburg, Germany

2:22 p.m. to 2:34 p.m.

Laser micromanipulation of living cells

M. Stich, S. Thalhammer, R. Burgemeister, K. Schütze, Palm Microlaser Technologies AG

Bernried, Germany

 

2:34 p.m. to 2:46 p.m.

Preparation and optical measurement of coagulated tissue samples

A. Lutter, H.J. Cappius, R. Schütz, R. Lemor, G.J. Müller

Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Klinik für Allgemein-, Gefäß- und Thoraxchirurgie, Freie Univeristät Berlin, Laser- und Medizin- Technologie GmbH, Berlin, Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik, Germany

2:46 p.m. to 2:58 p.m.

Laserscan: a new imaging technique for detecting early arthritic changes in finger joints

A.K. Scheel, J. Beuthan, H.J. Cappius, A. Krause, V. Tresp, A. Schwaighofer, P. Mayer, M. Backhaus, G.A. Müller

University of Göttingen, Nephrology and Rheumatology; Free University of Berlin, Department of Medical Physics and Laser Medicine; Charité University Berlin, Rheumatology; Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

2:58 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.

NIR-fluorescence based integrative imaging with a modified surgical microscope

E M Brüning, T Häupl, C Mahnke, J Beuthan

Laser- und Medizin- Technologie GmbH Berlin and Institut für Medizinische Physik/Lasermedizin, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

 

3:10 p.m. to 3:22 p.m.

Acoustico-photonic imaging - technique and opportunities

Uwe J. Netz, Hans-Joachim Cappius, Korinna Haack, Frank Schubert, Gerhard J. Müller

Laser- und Medizin-Technologie GmbH, Berlin (Germany) and Department of Medical Physics and Laser Medicine, Free University of Berlin, Germany

PART III

3:40 p.m. to 4:48 p.m.

 

 

Chairs:

R. Baumgartner, Laser Research Laboratory

University of Munich, Germany

R. Birngruber, Medical Laser Center Luebeck, University of Lübeck, Germany

3:40 p.m. to 3:52 p.m.

Clinical determination of in vivo tissue optical properties of human bladder wall and human brain tissue

T. Beck, W. Beyer, S. Wagner, H. Stepp, R. Baumgartner, R. Waidelich,
W. Stummer, Laser Research Laboratory, Department of Urology and Department of Neurosurgery, University of Munich, Germany

3:52 p.m. to 4:04 p.m.

Spectrum analysis of gastric cancer and atrophic gastritis

X. Li, J. Lin, Applied Physics Institute, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian and Department of Biology, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China

4:04 p.m. to 4:16 p.m.

Characteristic spectrum of liver cancer and abnormal liver tissue

X. Li, J. Lin, J. Ding, Applied Physics Institute, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian and Department of Biology, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China

4:16 p.m. to 4:28 p.m.

Laser-induced raman spectrum of colon cancer and rectal cancer

X. Li, J. Lin, H. Jin, Applied Physics Institute, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Department of Biology, Liaoning University, Shenyang, and Department of Physics, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang, China

4:28 p.m. to 4:48 p.m.

State of the art in laser safety in medicine

S. Gabay, DGS Laser in Medicine Technologies, Mode`in, Israel

 

ROOM BO, R2

1:00 p.m. to 1:50 p.m.

OPHTHALMOLOGY

Chairs:

M. Merz, Department of Ophthalmology

University of Munich, Germany

T. Okano, Department of Ophthalmology

Tokyo Medical University, Kasumigaura Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan

1:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.

Improvement of retinal circulation in diabetic retinopathy by panretinal photocoagulation

T. Okano, K. Matsuno, J. Ochiai, M. Osako, Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical University Kasumigaura Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan

1:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The effect of photocoagulation prior to vitreous surgery in diabetic retinopathy

K. Matsuno, T. Okano, J. Ochiai, Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical University Kasumigaura Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan

Poster Session

1:30 p.m. to 1:50 p.m.

Visual loss by subfoveal tumor regrowth after transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) for a small melanoma

B. Stoffelns, Eye Clinic, University of Mainz, Germany

Transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) for choroidal neovascular membranes in age-related macular degeneration (AMD)

B. Stoffelns, Eye Clinic, University of Mainz, Germany

 

 

ROOM BO, R2

2:00 p.m. to 3:48 p.m.

GASTROENTEROLOGY /LAPARASCOPY

Chairs:

K. Rau, Department of Surgery, University of Chennai, India

H. Suzuki, Clintexe Clinic, Tokyo, Japan

2:00 p.m. to 2:12 p.m.

Palliative endoscopic treatment of malignant esophageal obstruction using lasers and stents

H. Suzuki, Clintexe Clinic, Tokyo, Japan

2:12 p.m. to 2:24 p.m.

Advanced oesophageal carcinoma - laser palliation in 679 cases

K. Rau, S. Krishna, Department of Surgery, University of Chennai, India

2:24 p.m. to 2:36 p.m.

Endoscopic laser therapy for the patients over 80 year old with early gastric cancer

S. Hitoshi, Kitasato University East Hospital, Sagamihara, Japan

2:36 p.m. to 2:48 p.m.

Endoscopic mucosal resection in conjunction with diode laser irradiation for the treatment of early gastric cancer

M. Hamaguchi, Department of Internal Medicine, Murakami Memorial Hospital, Gifu City, Japan

2:48 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Laser therapy of solitary rectal ulcers

K. Rau, S. Krishna, Department of Surgery, University of Chennai, India

 

 

3:00 p.m. to 3:12 p.m.

Laser in ano rectal diseases

V. Jeganathan, Department of Surgery, Billroth Hospital, Chennai, India

3:12 p.m. to 3:24 p.m.

Laser in laparoscopic cholecystectomy

V. Jeganathan, Department of Surgery, Billroth Hospital, Chennai, India

3:24 p.m. to 3:36 p.m.

Are Laser application, together with ultrazision technique of a further advantage in abdominal tumor resection in children?

G.-H. Willital, J. Tsokas, R.R. Lehmann, C.M. Meier, Department of pediatric surgery, University of Münster, Germany

3:36 p.m. to 3:48 p.m.

Cw high Power IR-Laser at 2 µm for Minimal Invasive Surgery
Robert Keller2, Dirk Theisen*, Veit Danicke **, Verena Ott2, Ralf Brinkmann*
Medizinisches Laserzentrum Lübeck GmbH, Peter-Monnik-Weg 4, D-23562 Lübeck, Germany
2 Klinik für Chirurgie des Universitätsklinikums Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany

ROOM B0, R2

4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Council Meeting of WFSLMS

ROOM 2.160

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Editors meeting Med Laser Appl.

2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Präsidiumssitzung DGLM e.V.

ROOM B0, FORUM

12:15 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Performance “PDT-centennial”

6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Welcome Party “Laser goes Jazz

 

 

 

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