Dear AuntMinnie Member,
VIENNA - The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) drew to a close yesterday, bringing the curtain down on Europe's leading conference for medical imaging.
This week's show was yet another indication of the rising prominence of Europe in the research and education fields, with many attendees commenting on the high quality of the presentations. ECR 2014 also pushed the envelope in terms of new exposition technologies, with a high emphasis on social media and an ECR Live feed broadcasting presentations in real-time from Austria Center Vienna.
The meeting was not without some controversy, though. Attendees are still buzzing about a controversial talk that revived the debate over whether Dr. Raymond Damadian should have received a Nobel Prize for inventing MRI. A U.S. speaker used an honorary lecture as a soapbox to criticize the Nobel committee's decision in 2003 -- even as the chairman of the Nobel assembly that year was in the ECR audience. Read our article by clicking here.
While you're in our RADCast @ ECR special section, be sure to check out this story on the use of whole-body MRI screening to find serious disease in an asymptomatic population, and this article on the precautions to take when using mobile devices in radiology. We also have a roundup of new technologies exhibited at ECR 2014 by the Big Four multimodality vendors.
Get these stories -- as well as video interviews with European thought leaders recorded on the scene in Vienna -- at radcast.auntminnie.com.
