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Congratulations to the Euroson poster
prize winners.
First prize
89. AAA screening – the missing dimension?
McQueen AS (Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle), Oates CP, Elliott SE (Freeman
Hospital, Newcastle)
Runners-up
100. An in-vitro study of air emboli characteristics using transcranial
Doppler sonography and optical imaging.
Banahan C, Ramnarine KV ( University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust), Chung
EML, Evans DH (Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester)
101. Usefulness of acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) technology
(Siemens) for the evaluation of liver stiffness.
Sporea I, Sirli R, Popescu A, Danila M, Deleanu A, Bota S, (“Victor
Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania), Badea R,
Lupsor M (“Iuliu Hateganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj,
Romania) |
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POSTER PRESENTER INSTRUCTIONS -
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EUROSON 2009 POSTER EXHIBITION -
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| TIME |
Pentland Auditorium |
Sidlaw Suite |
Fintry Suite |
Workshops - Galloway Suite |
Integrated Training Day - Lomond
Suite |
| 08.50 -
09.00 |
Opening Ceremony - Address
by BMUS and EFSUMB Presidents.
This will take place in the Pentland Auditorium for 10 minutes prior to the
Physics 1 session. |
| 09.00 -
10.30 |
Physics 1- Developments in
Ultrasound Technology
09.00 Doppler Tissue Imaging - Professor Norman McDicken,
Edinburgh
09.30 In Vitro and In Vivo Assessment of Shearwave (TM)
Elastography (SWE) Technical Performances - Souquet, J, Supersonic Imagine,
France
09.40 Analysis of the in-air Reverberation Pattern from a
Medical Transducer to Determine Changes in Transducer Performance - Verma PK,
Sheffield
09.50 Ultrasonic Thermography of Diagnostic Power Ultrasound -
Liang H, Bristol
10.00 A Closed-Loop Automated Dynamic Phantom to Produce a
Figure of Merit for a Medical Ultrasound Imaging System - Corner GA, Dundee
10.10 Advances in Endoscopic Ultrasound technology - Inglis S,
Edinburgh
10.20 The Human Experimental Arterial Doppler Phantom; a
physiological model of the major cerebral arteries - Boadle R, Leicester |
Renal Imaging
09.00 Contrast enhanced Ultrasound in Kidney Tumours - Dr Hans
Peter Weskott, Germany
09.30 US and Colour Doppler in renal transplantation -
Professor Francesco Drudi, Italy
10.00 Microbubbles & the Kidney: A New Frontier? - Dr
Grant Baxter, Glasgow |
Paediatric Ultrasound
09.00 What a Paediatric Nephrologist needs from the Ultrasound
Department - Dr Henry Morgan, Liverpool
09.30 What a Paediatric Urologist needs from the Ultrasound
Department - Mr Simon Kenny, Liverpool
10.00 Ultrasound in Gastro oesophageal reflux - Dr Stephan
Schneider, Spain |
National Point of Care Ultrasound
(NPoCUS) - Chest Ultrasound in the acute/emergency setting.
Dr Bob Jarman, Gateshead
Dr Jim Connolly, Newcastle
(half day workshop) |
Introduction to Transabdominal
Ultrasound in Gastroenterology
Basic Level
This is a one day workshop aimed at clinicians and sonographers who wish to
develop their hands-on skills in ultrasound imaging of the GI tract
Click here to find out more |
| 10.30 - 11.00 |
Coffee |
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| 11.00 - 12.30 |
Physics 2- Developments in
Ultrasound Technology
11.00 3D Ultrasound - Professor Richard Prager, Cambridge
11.30 Development and applications of a new ultrasound
research system - Dr Piero Tortoli, Italy
12.00 Measurement of Colon wall Thickness in mice at High
Frequencies - Abdelrahman M, Leeds
12.10 Characterisation of a Custom-made HIFU Transducer and
its Application using Robotic Manipulation - Corner GA, Dundee
12.20 Comparison of the Acoustic Response of free and tubed
Contrast agents - Butler MB, Edinburgh |
Obstetrics 1
11.00 Organising ultrasound in pregnancy - Dr Sturla Eik Nes,
Norway
11.20 Fetal Ultrasound - relevance for adult life - Dr
Guttorm Haugen, Norway
11.40 Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme - Dr Trish Chudleigh,
Cambridge
12.00 Prenatal ultrasound and fetal MRI to predict outcome in
congenital CMV - Dr Luc de Catte (Belgium) |
Thyroid Imaging
Therese Planiol Lecture
11.00 Elastography of thyroid - Dr H Monpeyssen, France
11.30 Cystic neck masses - Dr Rhodri Evans, Swansea
12.00 Thyroid cancer on ultrasound - Dr Arne Heilo,
Norway |
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| 12.30 - 13.30 |
Lunch
12.30 Bracco Symposium (including complimentary lunch)
Contrast-Enhanced UltraSound (CEUS) - a winning
imaging modality Chair: Prof L Bolondi
12.45 BMUS Annual General
Meeting |
| 13.30 - 15.00 |
Vascular Ultrasound
13.30 AAASP progress to date and future developments - Mr
Jonathan Earnshaw, AAA Programme Director
13.50 Evidence Based Follow-Up Post EVAR - Dr Colin Nice,
Gateshead
14.10 Ultrasound of Aortic Stent Grafts - Mr Tim Hartshorne,
Leicester
14.30 Abdominal aortic diameter measurements: how repeatable
and reproducilbe are they? - Wolstenhulme S, Leeds
14.40 Small abdominal aortic aneurysm growth - Charnell A,
Leeds
14.50 Multimodality evaluation of consecutive patients with
abdominal aneurysm treated with endovascular graft: color-Doppler-US vs low-MI
CEUS compared with 64-slice-CTA and MRA - Cantisani V, Rome |
Obstetrics 2 - Fetal
Assessment
13.30 3D sweeps in 1st Trimester ultrasound Australasian
Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM) - President's lecture - Professor Ron
Benzie
14.00 Fetal liver circulation - Dr Torvid Kiserud, Norway
14.20 The TRUFFLE trial (Trial of umbilical and fetal flow in
Europe) - tbc
14.40 Long term follow up of GRIT (Growth Restriction
Intervention Trial) - Prof Jim Thornton, Nottingham |
NPoCUS/BMUS Joint session
Led by Dr Bob Jarman, Gateshead,
Dr Jim Connolly, Newcastle
- What is point-of-care ultrasound and how it can benefit my patients?
- Why, if your patient is dying in front of you, have you got an ultrasound
machine out?
- Is point-of-care ultrasound . . . well, pointless?
- Point-of-care . . . poor training, poor practice? |
Doppler Ultrasound in upper
Abdomen,
(half day workshop)
Is your abdominal ultrasound practice up to date?
This half day workshop will provide demonstrations and hands-on experience for
delegates to develop their skills using Doppler in the abdomen. This will be
led by national expert Jane Bates. |
| 15.00 - 15.30 |
Tea |
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| 15.30 - 17.00 |
Contrast - CEUS - what we expect
from the future - European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine
& Biology (EFSUMB)
15.30 New Application in Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound -
Professor Peter Burns, Canada
16.00 CEUS of carotid plaque neo-vascularisation - Dr Edoardo
Vicenzini, Rome
16.20 CEUS in lymph node characterisation - Dr Michael Hocke,
Germany
16.40 CEUS quantification - Dr Nathalie Lassau, France |
Ultrasound imaging of superficial
structures
15.30 CEUS of the testis - Professor Thierry Puttemans,
Belgium
16.00 Imaging in male infertility - Dr Paul Sidhu, London
16.20 Utrasound of the prostate: histology with an endorectal
probe - Dr Jonathan Richenberg, Brighton
17.00 Real-time Tissue Elastography - seeing what you feel? :
A Pictorial Review - Shah A, London
17.10 Use of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound in the Investigation
oF Indeterminate Focal Testicular Lesions: Evidence of Vascularity is an
Important Diagnostic Parameter - Dr Paul Sidhu, London |
German Society of Ultrasound in
Medicine-DEGUM session: The interdisciplinary approach
Chairmen: Nürnberg D, Greiner L
15.30 Ultrasound in developing countries - clinical impact and
teaching needs - Dr Matthias Wüstner, Trier
15.50 Emergency ultrasound on chest and the emergency
education programm of the "Dreilaender" (DEGUM, OEGUM, SGUM) - Mathis
G
16.10 Interventional endosonography - update 2009 - Dr C
Jürgensen, Kiel
16.30 Interventional ultrasound - CEUS in guidingtherapeutic
ultrasound - Prof Klaus Schlottmann, Unna
16.50 CEUS in the characterization of liver lesions - (when)
is it cost effective? A European overview - Dr A Schuler, Geislingen |
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| 17.00 - 18.00 |
Donald MacVicar
& Brown Lecture - Professor Yves Ville - Obstetrics (Paris)
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Day 2 Monday 7th Dec