Category: ECR 2016 Press Conference

Optimised low dose CT protocols: the half slice thickness approach.

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (ECR) – Computed tomography (CT) is an essential imaging modality that can be used to solve many clinical problems. Moreover, it is available all over the globe and in many areas even on a 24/7 basis. Over the last ten years much has been done to lower the radiation doses used in CT through technical innovations and the application of protocols based on the ALARA (As...

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (ECR) – Hybrid imaging with PET/CT and PET/MR is becoming increasingly crucial in the routine staging of oncologic disease, treatment planning, early treatment evaluation, and follow up. With ECR 2016 President, Professor Katrine Riklund, being licensed in both radiology and nuclear medicine, it is easy to guess, that one of the key aspects of the ECR 2016 programme will be hybrid imaging.

The combination of molecular, biochemical, and structural information that hybrid imaging has to offer...

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (ECR) – Personalised medicine describes the concept of delivering the right treatment to the right patient at the right time. Personalised medicine is about the customisation of healthcare, with decisions and practices being tailored to the individual patient by use of genetic or other information, said Prof. Gabriel P. Krestin, Chairman of the Department of Radiology at Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands, ahead of the ECR 2016 press conference.

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (ECR) – Obesity is a disease that has reached epidemic proportions around the world and affects nearly all medical disciplines. Professor Nick Finer, honorary consultant endocrinologist and bariatric physician at University College Hospital, London, will discuss how the worldwide prevalence of obesity – defined as a body mass index (weight/height² ) above 30kg/m² – has doubled between 1980 and 2008 and how modern imaging methods can be of help.

“In many ‘westernised’ countries such as the...

ESR steps up collaboration in medical radiation protection and imaging biobanks.

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (ECR) – Medical radiation protection, imaging biomarkers, and biobanks, have been the subject of intense focus on the part of the European Society of Radiology and its committees over the past year, said Professor Luis Donoso Bach, ESR President and director of the Diagnostic Imaging Department of the Hospital Clínic of the University of Barcelona, Spain.

The European Society of Radiology (ESR) and other medical...