ECR 2012 – Abstract Submission for Invest in the Youth Applicants ...

ECR 2012 – Abstract Submission for Invest in the Youth Applicants INVEST IN THE YOUTH APPLICATION – GENERAL CONDITIONS The aim of the programme is to give young radiologists and radiographers in training the chance to participate in the meeting. Successful applicants will be offered free registration for ECR 2012, five nights' hotel accommodation (for a fixed period: February 29 to March 5, 2012) and free public transport for the duration of the congress. This offer is only available to young radiologists or radiographers who meet the following criteria: • Radiologist in training under 35 years OR radiographer under 30 years • Member of the ESR in 2011 • Submission of an abstract for either EPOS TM or oral presentation between Jun 8 – Sept 12, 2011 ! The submitters of the 50 best-­‐rated abstracts will be automatically accepted onto the programme. All other participants will be chosen according to geopolitical spread. For more detailed information about the ECR 2012 – Invest in the Youth programme, please visit the ESR website www.myESR.org ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must be made online at www.myESR.org/abstracts2012_iity Abstract submission required for Invest in the Youth-­‐applications for ECR 2012 is possible from June 8 – September 12, 2011. GENERAL PROCEEDINGS Submissions are treated like all other abstract submissions for oral presentations or electronic exhibits. All submitted abstracts will be reviewed anonymously (double-­‐blinded review process) by 3 independent referees. Notification of decisions will be emailed to the submitting author as soon as they are available. Do NOT submit the same abstract neither to the regular EPOS TM abstract submission nor to the abstract submission system for oral presentations (submissions July-­‐September 2011), as this will cause immediate rejection! DEADLINES FOR ECR 2012 – Invest in the Youth applicants: Abstracts must be submitted by September 12, 2011 (24:00 CET) the latest. Submission after this date will not be possible to be taken into consideration for the ECR 2012-­‐Invest in the Youth application process. Note: Regular abstract submission for posters to be shown at ECR 2012 (EPOS TM ) will be possible until December 31, 2011. ECR 2012 – Invest in the Youth Applications – Abstract Submission Guidlines, p.1 of 6

ABSTRACT TYPES Three abstract types are available: • • • Poster presentation – scientific exhibit* (EPOS): for standard scientific studies to be presented as an electronic poster within the ECR 2012 electronic scientific exhibition (EPOS TM ). Poster presentation – educational exhibit* (EPOS): for educative description of a series of cases of a particular condition or perhaps a series of cases of a particular procedure (without having carried out a study) to be presented as an electronic poster within the ECR 2012 electronic scientific exhibition (EPOS TM ). Paper presentation (oral presentation): for standard scientific studies to be presented as an oral presentation within a session during ECR 2012. *) In case of acceptance of a submitted poster abstract, authors must upload their digital material to the EPOS TM system by January 31, 2012. All accepted posters are presented electronically in EPOS TM , (no paper print outs). ABSTRACT FORMAT Abstracts should be submitted in a format ready for publication. Please check and avoid any typographic and grammatical errors. Note that the same study or content cannot be submitted for more than one abstract type. In order to start the submission process, a poster type must be chosen. Once chosen, the type cannot be changed. ! Note that case reports will not be accepted! The reviewers are instructed to filter these out. We recommend submitting case reports to EURORAD (www.eurorad.org). AWARDS AND DISCUSSIONS Before the congress, the Scientific Exhibition Jury will evaluate uploaded posters and present Awards (Magna Cum Laude, Cum Laude, Certificate of Merit) to the best ones. In addition, authors of specially selected posters will be asked to present their work in person at ECR 2012, in the EPOS, area during moderated events. Those presented posters will receive an official diploma and prize. INSTRUCTIONS: HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT GENERAL INFORMATION: It is recommended that authors prepare their abstracts in advance using any standard word processing system, and then ‘copy and paste’ the elements from the word processing document into the appropriate spaces in the submission system. Please do NOT include references, acknowledgements, graphics, tables or figures in your abstract body. Text should be submitted using standard Latin characters. ECR 2012 – Invest in the Youth Applications – Abstract Submission Guidlines, p.2 of 6

SUBMISSION STEPS: 1. Choose a type for your abstract. Possible types are ‘Poster presentation -­‐ scientific exhibit (EPOS)’ or ’Poster presentation -­‐ educational exhibit (EPOS)’ or ‘Paper presentation (oral)’. 2. Enter the title for your abstract. Titles should all be lower case except for acronyms, proper names (e.g. Doppler, Crohn's, X-­‐ray), the first letter and after colons. Do not use a full stop at the end of the title. Please spell out any Greek or scientific characters (e.g. beta) or use the Omega button (Ω) in the Editor and click on the character you want to insert. 3. Select the appropriate keywords and / or topic from the respective lists. This selection determines how your abstract is reviewed and indexed online. You can chose up to 3 keywords per column; one keyword in each column is mandatory. In addition, abstracts for ‘Paper presentation (oral)’ must have one topic. 4. Add authors to your abstract. To avoid duplicate entries you have to search before you are allowed to create a new person entry. Within the author block you may change the roles Author and Presenter. One presenter must be selected. 5. Enter the abstract body. We recommend to enter the text by typing or copying and pasting plain text from a prepared document. Keep strictly to the given structure. 6. Complete the required affirmations. 7. Check for correctness and completeness. When the abstract submission process is complete, a summary page is displayed and may be printed for your own record. This page includes the abstract control number and full details of your submission. Please review this summary carefully to ensure that it is correct. If it is not, please edit accordingly. 8. Submit your abstract by clicking ‘save and finish’. Please make sure that your abstract is properly structured and comprehensively checked for British English spelling and grammar. ! Following all instructions will improve the quality of your submission and thus influence its scores in a positive way. You can edit or delete your abstract online at any time until the end of the submission month (submission phase). If you wish to withdraw your abstract after that date you must inform the ESR Office in writing by email. Detailed notifications of acceptance will be sent to you by email. ECR 2012 – Invest in the Youth Applications – Abstract Submission Guidlines, p.3 of 6

AFFIRMATIONS To finalise abstract submission, each author must agree to the following conditions: • that all authors are aware that their names appear on the abstract. • that if the abstract is accepted, the ESR (European Society of Radiology) will hold the copyright. • that if a poster abstract is accepted, the author must submit the digital poster material via EPOS, the ECR’s Electronic Presentation Online System. The copyright of the digital poster material will be held by the ESR (European Society of Radiology). INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACT TYPES: POSTER PRESENTATION – SCIENTIFIC EXHIBITS and PAPER PRESENTATION (ORAL) Abstracts should include the following elements: -­‐ Title Please keep titles as long as necessary but as short as possible. Company and trade names, special symbols or characters are not allowed in the title. -­‐ Author(s) A maximum of nine authors can be listed. Only people that contributed to the work should be listed – gift or ghost authorship is strongly discouraged. Note that the system requires contact information (incl. email address) for each author. -­‐ Keywords A new list of keywords has been introduced: four equally weighted keyword columns (Area of interest, Technique, Procedure, Special focus) each containing a variety of terms relevant to radiology allows effective description and indexing of your work. A minimum of one term is required and a maximum of three terms is allowed for each column. -­‐ Abstract body The body of the abstract should summarise the subject in a maximum of 250 words, and should be structured as follows: • Purpose • Methods and Materials • Results • Conclusion Sample Abstract Body: Purpose: Partial volume averaging effects complicate measurement of acoustic neuroma size with the error greatest in small tumors. A method of volume measurement that incorporates partial volume averaging is introduced. Methods and Materials: Post contrast T1 volume MR images were acquired from 48 patients. A computer generated phantom was created, mimicking the partial volume and noise characteristics of acoustic neuromas. Manual volume segmentation is taken as the gold standard. Tumour diameter, perimeter length, elliptical and directly measured area were measured on the image demonstrating the largest tumour area. Three dimensional seeding was performed on the tumour volume as well as an algorithm developed for automated ECR 2012 – Invest in the Youth Applications – Abstract Submission Guidlines, p.4 of 6

estimation of tumour size using Bayesian classifiers. Results: Correlation with gold standard volume measure was greatest for the automated algorithm (95 % confidence interval for R2 is 0.962 to 0.988), followed by measures of seeding (0.773 to 0.923), ellipse (0.755 to 0.916), area (0.645 to 0.872), diameter (0.491 to 0.803), and perimeter (0.491 to 0.803). Phantom studies on partial volume regions show the accuracy of the partial volume measurement was 5 % (c.f. 13 % for repeated area measurements). Conclusion: A Bayesian statistical classification method can rapidly provide measures of tumour volume which are reproducible and offer better accuracy than current time consuming gold standard techniques. This method should also increase the accuracy of growth rate measurements for intracanalicular acoustic neuromas. Important abstract elements: • Purpose should be clearly stated. • Precise description of methods and materials (patients), especially patient recruitment, analysis and statistics should be given. • Precise description of results with numbers and statistics should be included. • Statistics should be appropriate. • Work-­‐in-­‐progress is only acceptable for extremely innovative or interesting approaches. • Coherence between stated purpose, methods and materials, results and conclusion is important. INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACT TYPE: POSTER PRESENTATION – EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITS A properly submitted abstract will include the following elements: -­‐ Title Please keep titles as long as necessary but as short as possible. Company and trade names, special symbols or characters are not allowed in the title. -­‐ Author(s) A maximum of nine authors can be listed. Only people that contributed to the work should be listed – gift or ghost authorship is strictly discouraged. Note that the system requires contact information (incl. email address) for each author. -­‐ Keywords A new list of keywords has been introduced: four equally weighted keyword columns (Area of interest, Technique, Procedure, Special focus) each containing a variety of terms relevant to radiology allows effective description and indexing of your work. A minimum of one term is required and a maximum of three terms is allowed for each column. -­‐ Abstract body The body of the abstract should summarise the subject in a maximum of 250 words, and should be structured as follows: • Learning Objectives • Background ECR 2012 – Invest in the Youth Applications – Abstract Submission Guidlines, p.5 of 6

• Imaging Findings or Procedure Details (use appropriate item) • Conclusion Sample Abstract Body: Learning Objectives: To illustrate the spectrum of percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of bone metastases. To outline the advantages and limits of the technique. To describe the best indications and results of the method based on a series of 68 patients. Background: Painful bone metastases commonly occur in advanced cancer patients. They are difficult to manage because of pain, bone weakening, and reduction in mobility. In this exhibits we will describe the use of radiofrequency (RF) ablation in bone metastases with the most suitable indications, the results, the advantages and the limits of this technique compared to the existing percutaneous interventions. Between January 1999 and January 2002, 68 patients with bone metastases were treated in our department. The technique, indications and contraindications of radiofrequency ablation are described and illustrated. Procedure Details: A wet mono-­‐ or bi-­‐polar electrode was used for the ablation (Berchtold® Tuttlingen, Germany). The procedure is performed under general anaesthesia or regional block. The major indication is palliative treatment of lytic bone metastases and pain management. However, curative ablation is performed in some special cases like bone metastases of thyroid cancer. In these cases, the treatment begins with radiofrequency ablation with destruction of more than 90% of the lesion followed by 131-­‐ iodine therapy to complete the ablation of residual tumour. Conclusion: Complete necrosis was observed in 85% of cases. Radio-­‐frequency ablation of bone metastases was promising in pain management with 78% of satisfactory results. CONTACT: General information about the submission can be obtained through the ESR Office: Neutorgasse 9, 1010 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43-­‐1-­‐533 40 64-­‐0 Fax: +43-­‐1-­‐533 40 64-­‐441 epos@myESR.org www.myESR.org If you have any questions about the ECR 2012 – Invest in the Youth applications, please contact iity@myESR.org ECR 2012 – Invest in the Youth Applications – Abstract Submission Guidlines, p.6 of 6