The European Congress of Radiology kicks off March 6-10 in Vienna, Austria.

Over 20,000 participants are expected from 101 countries.

Besides the technical exhibit, which will bring more than 300 exhibitors to the space, ECR will host five days of sessions and scientific programs.
ECR says the sessions will be more interactive this year.

"People are increasingly interested in interactive sessions to assess what they have learned from a lecture. The ECR has been developing interactive sessions for several years now, and we want to increase their numbers. Keypads are reliable, but I am sure that very soon everybody will be able to vote with their own iPads or tablets," said ECR 2014 president Valentin Sinitsyn.

Interactivity will also be key in the multimedia classroom. There will be interactive workstations for radiologists in CT coronary angiography, CT colonography, and CT imaging in oncology and emergency medicine.

More sessions this year will focus on the management of cancer patients as well, in addition to new disciplines around theranostics, personalized medicine and radiogenomics.

"The explosion of 'omics' data is changing the face of medicine so considerably and rapidly that, if we don't pay enough attention, our specialty could be threatened. Personalised medicine is not a just a dream, but an actual reality, and we have to adapt our specialty to this new paradigm. The development of personalised imaging, which has already begun in oncology, should be taken further, and we have to appreciate its impact on education," said ESR President, Guy Frija.

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