ECR 2013 – Final Programme - myESR.org

General InformationInformation from A to ZMini CoursesECR 2013 features three new Mini Courses, ‘Controversies inBreast Imaging’, ‘The Beauty of Basic Knowledge: Head and Neck’and ‘The Beauty of Basic Knowledge: Musculoskeletal Imaging’.The joint course of the ESR and RSNA ‘Essentials in OncologicImaging: What Radiologists Need to Know’ is repeated from lastyear. The ‘Organs from A to Z’ series, introduced at ECR 2010,will this year focus on the heart.The ‘Organs from A to Z’ course, the course on breast imaging andthe ESR/RSNA course sessions will be interactive with electronicvoting/self assessment.Places for all courses are allocated on a first-come, first-servedbasis.The ‘Organs from A to Z’ course is accompanied by a voluntaryself-assessment test that will be available after the last session isfinished. Tests can be accessed online (assessment.myESR.org)as well as via the EPOS classroom.Please refer to pages 112–114 for the courses’ programmes.MIR@ECRAfter last year’s success, the ESR Subcommittee on Managementin Radiology has again organised a special session at the ECR oncore managerial issues and supportive methods and techniques.It takes place on Saturday, March 9, 13:00–17:30 in Room Q.See page 61.Mobile GuideGet the ECR on your smartphone and always stay up to date! TheECR Mobile Guide brings ECR 2013 to the palm of your hand.Find out all about sessions/lectures, abstracts, exhibitors, floorplans and places to be.Link: m.myESR.orgMultidisciplinary Sessions:Managing Patients with CancerThese sessions are intended to promote a multidisciplinaryapproach to cancer detection and treatment, by bringing togetherradiologists, surgeons and oncologists to share their expertise.The topics that are covered this year are: colorectal liver metastases,hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma.Please refer to page 108 for the programme of the sessions.New Horizons SessionsThe aim of the New Horizons Sessions is to provide practitionerswith an overview of the new developments in a specific areaof practice e.g. specialty, technique, or disease. These developmentsmay become routine within a few years, or may indicatea new direction for research and clinical application. There arethree New Horizons Sessions, entitled ‘Cartilage imaging’, ‘MR/PET: a marriage made in heaven or hell?’ and ‘Imaging of themind’, at ECR 2013. Session places are allocated on a first-come,first-served basis. Please refer to page 100 for the programmeof the sessions.Plenary SessionsSee page 55.Post-Processing Face-Off SessionThe ‘Workstation Face-Off ’ session takes place in Room B onFriday, March 8, 08:30–10:00.The aim of this session is to simulate a realistic ‘reading room’atmosphere and to give an impression of how different workstationsperform in a clinical scenario. We would like to cordiallyinvite you to attend this exciting tournament of post-processing(see page 139).PressThe ECR 2013 Opening Press Conference takes place on Thursday,March 7, at 09:30 at the Austria Center Vienna, MeetingRoom 14 (1 st level). For press accreditation, please contact thePress Office & Business Centre on the entrance level. To obtaina press badge, you must present an international press ID or aconfirmation letter from the relevant medium.Delegates and exhibitors may display their press kits in the PressOffice & Business Centre. There are also several publicly availablecomputer terminals as well as workspace and plug points for youto work with your personal laptop.Opening hours:Thursday, March 7 to Monday, March 11: 08:00–18:00Preview Centre – EDIPSEDIPS, the ECR’s digital preview system, allows for fast and easypresenter identification through badge scanning. Large screensin the waiting area display the names of the presenters who areasked to proceed to the Check-In counter, where they can handin their presentations. At the Preview Stations, presenters have theopportunity to do a final check on their presentations. This year,presenters were offered the option of submitting their materialprior to the congress.The Preview Centre is located on the 1 st level, next to Room N/O.Opening hours:Wednesday, March 6: 12:00–18:00Thursday, March 7 to Monday, March 11: 07:00–18:00Please note that only digital material will be allowed for oralpresentations.The material must be in English and must be provided on CD-ROM, DVD, ZIP disk or USB devices so that it can be transferredto a central server onsite. It is mandatory that the data carriersare delivered to the audiovisual preview centre 2 hours prior tothe session, at the latest. Computers connected to data projectorsare provided in each lecture room for the speaker to retrievethe saved data.The material remains the property of the speakers.Professional Challenges SessionsThese sessions are intended to communicate and exchange issueson radiological training and education, research networking,radiological management and professional developments. Thisyear’s topics are ‘Bringing radiology to medical undergraduates’,‘The visibility of the radiologist’, ‘Personalised radiology’, ‘Legalmatters related to multimodality techniques’ and ‘The radiologist,the clinician and the patient: an impossible trio?’.Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Please referto page 107 for the sessions’ programme.46