Abstract
Dr. Mamoru Tamura (1943–2011) was the honorary president of the ISOTT 2008 meeting in Sapporo, Japan, and has made numerous contributions to biomedical optics and functional near-infrared spectrometry. This chapter briefly describes Dr. Tamura’s scientific achievements and contributions to the society based on the “Memorial lecture about Mamoru Tamura’s contributions to biomedical optics” in ISOTT 2012 in Bruges, Belgium.
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I thank many colleagues in ISOTT and Oxygen Dynamics Society Japan who talked with me about Dr. Tamura’s life and science. Particularly, I thank Dr. Marco Ferrari, Dr. Yoko Hoshi, Dr. Kaoru Sakatani, and Dr. Takafumi Hamaoka for kindly supplying the valuable photographs. Also, many thanks to the President of ISOTT 2012, Prof. Sabine van Huffel, for giving me such a precious moment for remembering Dr. Tamura.
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Takahashi, E. (2013). Remembering Professor Mamoru Tamura. In: Van Huffel, S., Naulaers, G., Caicedo, A., Bruley, D.F., Harrison, D.K. (eds) Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXXV. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 789. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7411-1_1
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