Final Programme

A-081 16:25
Survival in a hurricane
J.H. Thrall; Boston, MA/US
Postgraduate Educational Programme
Learning Objectives:
1. To learn the major issues and problems facing the contemporary practice of radiology.
2. To understand different strategies and management approaches for addressing these issues.
3. To become familiar with specifi c examples of problem solving through creative management.
A-082 16:50
In bed with the enemy: Turf battles or win-win situations
M. Claudon; Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy/FR
Learning Objectives:
1. To identify some of the potential "imaging" battlefi elds in patient’s management, affecting also hospital
strategy in equipment acquisition, healthcare organisations and industry lobbying.
2. To analyse the challenges of cooperative concepts with respect to quality improvement and costeffectiveness
in a changing medical business.
3. To learn key issues for radiology in a cooperative approach (maintenance of high expertise level in
interpretation and technology, promotion of guidelines and regulations).
Panel discussion 17:20
16:00 - 17:30 Room L/M
Special Focus Session
SF 4c
Multimodality small bowel wall imaging
Moderator: N. Gourtsoyiannis; Iraklion/GR
A-083 16:00
Multimodality small bowel wall imaging (Introduction)
N. Gourtsoyiannis; Iraklion/GR
Learning Objectives:
1. To present in detail various enhancement patterns of normal and abnormal bowel wall on advanced US,
CT and MR small intestinal examinations.
2. To discuss the contribution of such patterns in lesion detection and characterisation and in the differential
diagnosis of fi brosis, infl ammation and neoplasia.
A-084 16:05
Contrast enhanced ultrasonography
E. Quaia; Trieste/IT
Learning Objectives:
1. To review the technique of contrast enhanced US in the small bowel wall.
2. To discuss and summarise key imaging fi ndings in the differential diagnosis of infl ammatory and
neoplastic diseases.
3. To discuss enhancement patterns of the bowel wall in differentiating infl ammation and fi brosis.
4. To present the pro’s and con’s of contrast enhanced US in small bowel studies as compared to CT and
MR.
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