Welcome to the official website of BioMed 2004, the Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 2 - 4 September 2004.

The conference will be officiated by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, YAB Dato' Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi, on September 3, 2004.

Plenary speakers

		Prof. Colin Orton President of IUPESM Harper Hospital and Wayne State University, United States Review of new technological developments in the radiotherapeutic treatment of cancer
		Prof. Joachim Nagel President of IFMBE Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany Biological effects of low frequency ultrasound: Health hazards and medical applications
		Prof. John G. Webster Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States Tissue ablation: devices and procedures
		Prof. Dan L. Bader Department of Engineering and IRC in Biomedical Materials, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom Biomechanical conditioning of chondrocyte-seeded constructs: Tuning for success
		Reinhold Scherer Department of Medical Informatics, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Austria Direct brain-computer communication
		Prof. J.C. Barbenel University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland The mechanical properties of soft body tissues

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Topics covered

Virtual reality in medicine

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Who should attend

The conference is primarily targeted at biomedical engineers, medical practitioners, and medical physicists. In addition, all academicians, researchers, and students from engineering and medical faculties are also encouraged to be part of BioMed 2004.

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Language

The official language of the conference is English. Presentation and discussions will also be conducted in English. No simultaneous translation is provided.