Dear AuntMinnie Member,
VIENNA - The 2015 edition of the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) opened yesterday, with its unique blend of style, culture, education, and research.
This year, the ECR president, Dr. Bernd Hamm, hails from Germany, and in a Wednesday evening ceremony Dr. Hamm opened the meeting by presenting honorary European Society of Radiology (ESR) memberships to two U.S. radiologists, Dr. N. Reed Dunnick and Dr. Anne G. Osborn, as well as Korean radiologist Dr. Tae-Hwan Lim.
The ceremony also featured a lively performance by the Flying Steps, a Berlin dance troupe that adapts hip-hop dance moves to Bach concertos, illustrating ECR's unique blend of the traditional with the cutting edge.
ECR has also seen a lively first day in terms of clinical proceedings. For example, Italian researchers presented a study that demonstrated that men participating in a clinical trial preferred CT colonography to sigmoidoscopy.
In another study, a group from South Korea showed that ultrasound-guided core-needle biopsy significantly outperforms ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy for diagnosing salivary gland tumors.
And in ECR's opening press conference, researchers from Germany discussed their work on a population-based screening program to use 3-tesla MRI to ultimately scan as many as 30,000 people.
Meanwhile, don't forget to check out our daily videos from the congress, with AuntMinnieEurope.com Editor-in-Chief Philip Ward interviewing prominent European radiologists on the major issues of the day. Our first two topics include whether radiologists should be generalists or subspecialists, and how radiologists can make themselves indispensable in the future.
Check back for more coverage of ECR 2015 in our special RADCast @ ECR section, at radcast.auntminnie.com.
