title: Remembering Professor Mamoru Tamura.
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.
authors.affiliation: Advanced Technology Fusion, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Saga, 840-8502, Japan. eiji@cc.saga-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Eiji
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Takahashi
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000266:history*; D019265:Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared / Q000266:history*