From the contents: Monitoring Oxygenation during the Growth of a Transplanted Tumor -- NIRS Measurement of Venous Oxygen Saturation in the Adult Human Head -- What Is Tissue Engineering? What Is ISOTT’S Role?- Lightguide Spectrophotometry to Monitor Free Tram Flaps -- Influence of whole-body vibration static exercise on quadriceps oxygenation -- Indocyanine green Laser retinal oximetry: Preliminary report -- Microcirculation Hemorheology and Tissue Oxygenation in Clinical and Experimental Practice: CEMOT Activity in the Last Two Years -- NIRS-Detected Changes in the Motor Cortex During Mental Rehearsal of Physical Activity (Imaginary Exercise) -- NIRS-Detected Changes in the Arm During Mental Rehearsal of Physical Activity (Imaginary Exercise) -- Theoretical Simulation of Tumour Oxygenation - Practical Applications -- Application of NIRS in Mice: A Study Comparing the Oxygenation of Cerebral Blood and Main Tissue Oxygenation of Mice and Rat -- Intracellular pH in Gastric and Rectal Tissue Post Cardiac Arrest -- O2 Uptake Kinetics in Skeletal Muscle: Why Is It So Slow and What Does it Mean?- Effects of Major Abdominal Surgery on RBC Deformability -- Post Ischemic No-Reflow After 60 Minutes Hepatic Warm Ischemia In Pigs.

Proceedings of the 32nd scientific meeting of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT) in Bari, Italy, August 21-26, 2004.