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ESMRMB - Newsletter Volume 11, June 2011 |
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Our new ESMRMB e-newsletter will provide you with a brief overview of the most important activities and updates of the society. Please just click on the item of interest below and you will be guided directly to the article! Further information on all activities can also be found on our website at www.esmrmb.org!
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Dear Members, Colleagues, and Friends of the ESMRMB,
I have now served just over one year as president of this society and I am very happy to report that the society is in a healthy state and steadily growing. With the record breaking joint meeting together with the ISMRM last year in Stockholm, we have once again demonstrated that Europe is a great place for MR and we are much looking forward to our Annual Scientific Meeting in Leipzig this October. The meeting preparation is well on the way. Prof. Segebarth as head of our scientific programme committee together with Prof. Kahn, the head of the local organising committee, have been extremely active to ensure that you can expect an outstanding scientific meeting as well as an exiting social programme. Prof. Moser, together with the education and workshop committee, also compiled a very interesting educational programme during the annual meeting, covering a wide range from MR basics to practical clinical applications.
I am also happy to report that the educational programmes of the ESMRMB continue to be a success story and that we have developed a concept with the ISMRM to coordinate all educational activities between these two societies for the benefit of all our members and to provide the best education in our field.
The Executive Board of our society has decided to renew our newsletter concept and update it to a fully electronic format as you read it now. We hope this format allows to quickly absorb the latest information about our society and stay in close contact with the scientists that this society is made of and for: you, our valued membership.
With my kindest regards,
Oliver Speck
ESMRMB President
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This European Forum for MR research and clinical practice offers a three day educational and scientific programme meeting the demands of clinicians, basic scientists, technologists and engineers alike in form of Plenary Sessions, Mini-Categorical Courses and Teaching Sessions.
Prof. Richard Ernst, 1991 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will deliver the inaugural Sir Peter Mansfield Lecture.
Further highlights will be the Round Table Discussion and the Hot Topic Debate. A Joint EFOMP/ESMRMB Session will focus on “Hybrid Systems”.
The scientific programme will count numerous parallel scientific sessions for oral presentations. A new category of communications, the Clinical Review Poster Session, will be introduced.
Time slots will be allocated for viewing of traditional and electronic (EPOS) posters, as well as for allowing attendance of the Software Exhibit (formerly known as Info-RESO).
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The ESMRMB is proud of its educational activities being offered to different target groups - in 2011 the following programmes are offered:
School of MRI - education for physicians and technicians
1 Applied MR Techniques Course & 8 Advanced Clinical Courses still to come in 2011. Find out more here.
Lectures on MR - education for MR physicists and other basic or clinical scientists
Educational courses, exercises, and practical demonstrations on MR Physics, Spectroscopy and Engineering; 7 courses are planned in 2011 - click here to see the complete course programme!
Hands On MRI - education for MRI technologists, radiographers and interested physicians
2 vendor specific hands-on training courses in 2011 with 50% sessions on the scanner and workstations - find out more here.
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Become a fan of ESMRMB on facebook and receive regular updates on the society's activities! Post messages, upload pictures and communicate with other ESMRMB fans via our ESMRMB facebook page!
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The ESMRMB is proud to present its newly introduced ESMRMB Certificate of MR Excellence.
The certificate shall honour physicians and scientists, being active members of the ESMRMB, who have made a significant contribution to the field of MR.
Make sure to apply for the ESMRMB Certificate of MR Excellence now to prove your excellence in the field of MR! The application deadline is October 1, 2011!
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The 2 MAGMA special issues on “Arterial Spin Labeling MRI “ with David Alsop as Guest Editor and “MR Thermometry “ with Robert Turner as Guest-Editor are nearly complete; see papers already available online at Springer - enter via the MyUser Area (access only for active members of ESMRMB with online journal access).
2011 Young Investigator Award competition: 10 papers have been received and are under review. The 3 finalists will be known by early July!
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MR safety issues get more and more important with the increasing number of high field MR systems operating at 3.0T, which increases the risk for specific absorption rate (SAR) related heating. In addition more medical implants are nowadays used in patients and a careful screening for their safe use in the MR environment is mandatory.
These require the development of guidelines and training courses in MR safety.
Based on a course which was certified by the Austrian Standards Institute – ÖNORM, a similar European course on MR safety within the School of MRI is now in preparation and will be held in 2012.
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On 14 June 2011 the European Commission adopted a proposal to revise the directive on protecting workers from electromagnetic fields. The European Commission’s proposal includes a derogation for the medical and research use of MRI from the exposure limit values, which will ensure that this vital technology will continue to be available for all patients.
The derogation is part of a wide-ranging update of the directive, which the European Parliament and Council are expected to act on later this year. The derogation for MRI is required as the revised exposure limits still curtail the use of MRI in various areas such as MRI-guided surgery, imaging vulnerable patients and children. New research and developments in MRI would also be severely restricted, as would routine cleaning and maintenance of MRI equipment.
This revision is a result of the concerns raised by the Alliance for MRI and a recognition by the European Commission that the current Directive severely curtailed the use of MRI to the detriment of patients in Europe.
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We cordially invite you to participate in the Euro-BioImaging Survey on existing imaging facilities and unmet imaging infrastructure needs of European scientists.
Euro-BioImaging, a pan-European research infrastructure for biomedical imaging, will provide access to imaging technologies, dedicated training in imaging and service for image data storage and analysis. Euro-BioImaging's medical imaging community is scientifically coordinated by EIBIR.
The Euro-BioImaging Survey is targeting all stakeholders in Europe’s imaging infrastructure and aims to identify the unmet imaging infrastructure needs.
By sharing your expertise and knowledge you can contribute to shape the future Euro-BioImaging infrastructure.
Further background information as well as a pdf file of the survey can be found here.
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