The music of Austria’s greatest composers -- Mozart, Strauss, and Brahms -- will open ECR 2001 during a concert March 2 at the Austria Center in Vienna. The overture of The Marriage of Figaro, the Spring Voices Waltz, and the Emperor Waltz, will give attendees the opportunity to "Meet Europe," which happens to be the theme for this year’s meeting.
"Our motto is 'Meet Europe' since the ECR has become the official annual meeting place for radiologists from all of Europe and the rest of the world to enjoy science, education, technical innovations, and cultural events," said Dr. Holger Pettersson in his president’s address.
Many events are unique to the ECR, including Eurorad, the educational electronic peer-reviewed publication of the European Association of Radiology, and the Golden Mile. This year’s theme is "Advanced Interactive Visualization," a celebration of the latest advances in 3-D display, virtual endoscopy, and surgical simulations.
Topics at 2001 EuroPACS include the history of PACS in Europe, and installing PACS in a university setting. Information technology experts will be on hand from Saturday through Tuesday to discuss implementation issues.
Here are a few of the scientific sessions and other events AuntMinnie.com will be covering in five days of live reports from ECR 2001.
Opening Ceremony
Inauguration Lecture: Functional MRI and acupuncture
Guozhen Li, Beijing
Honorary membership in the European Association of Radiology presented to:
Kyoichi Hiramatsu, Tokyo
Guozhen Li, Beijing
C. Douglas Maynard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
Contrast Media: New trends
Moderators: F. Caseiro-Alves, Coimbra, Portugal
E. Fanucci, Rome
8:30-10:30 a.m., Room L/M
Topics: Prevention of generalized reactions to contrast media, upper extremity venography
Musculoskeletal: Shoulder imaging
Moderators: R. Arkun, Izmir, Turkey
H. Imhof, Vienna
10:30 a.m.-noon, Room B
Topics: New classification of the painful shoulder, dynamic MRI, low-field MR arthography
Breast: Mammography and clinical breast imaging
Moderators: R. Holland, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
H.H. Schild, Bonn, Germany, 10:30 a.m.-noon
Room E2
Topics: Long-term outcomes in Swedish mammography trials, imaging modalities in the diagnosis of breast cancer
Head and Neck: Cancer
Moderators: G. Moulin, Marseilles, France
F.E. Zanella, Frankfurt, Germany
2-3:30 p.m., Room L/M
Topics: Digital image fusion of early and delayed dual-phase spiral CT scans, MR-guided
interstitial photodynamic therapy
Satellite Symposia
Cardiac MRI
2-3:30 p.m., Room E1
Moderator: R.W. Günther, Aachen, Germany
Topics: MRI of ischemic heart disease by C.B. Higgins, San Francisco, CA, U.S.,
MRI assessment of cardiac function, A. de Roos, Leiden, The Netherlands
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