RSNA2010.PlanningLog

RSNA 2010

RSNA’s 96th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, IL. The 96th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting begins on Sunday, November 28, at 8:30am and adjourns on Friday, December 3, at 3:15pm.

RSNA 2010 AudioVisual Guidelines

To enhance the meeting room environment at RSNA 2010, all screens will be 16:9 widescreen format, not 4:3 as in previous years. To take full advantage of the new widescreen format, build or convert your presentation to 16:9. If you use 4:3 as your presentation format aspect ratio, your presentation will be "pillar boxed" on the 16:9 screens. Please download the below to assist you in your preparations.

Speaker Guidelines:

• Audiovisual Guidelines and Instructions for Speakers

For Windows Users:

• Demo Showing How to Convert Slides to Widescreen Format
• Presenter Slide Template

For Macintosh Users:

• Demo Showing How to Convert Slides to Widescreen Format
• Presenter Slide Template for 08
• Presenter Slide Template for 09

For Posters and Booth Slides: The program department does not offer slide templates. We provide support for mounting and display of exhibits, but preparation is the responsibility of the author. Handouts can be in any format (the most common are powerpoint, or a .pdf of an article). These can be sited at the presenter's site (either his own or the institution) and he can submit a URL to the site, which we will add to his course in the online program. There will also be a list of URL's in the education area of our website. Or, the speaker can choose to upload his handout to our site. This feature will be available in the next few days, and can be accessed through our faculty website (http://abstract.rsna.org/rc.htm)

If you have any special requirements – i.e., sound, Internet, use of your own computer – please contact Kim Christianson at kchristianson@rsna.org or Janet Cooper at jcooper@rsna.org. All special requirements are subject to review for approval.

Beginning in mid October, you will be able to submit your presentation in advance by accessing the RSNA submission site. Information on how to access the site will be sent closer to the date.

NA-MIC Slicer Workshop

3D Interactive Visualization of DICOM Images for Radiology Applications

• 11/29/2010 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
• Author/Presenter: Kitt Shaffer MD, PhD
• Author/Presenter: Sonia Marie-Aurore Pujol PhD
• Author/Presenter: Randy L. Gollub MD, PhD

• QA Testing for the slides

CTSA Slicer Workshop

Quantitative Medical Imaging for Clinical Research and Practice

• 11/30/2010 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
• Author/Presenter: Randy L. Gollub MD, PhD
• Author/Presenter: Katarzyna J. Macura MD, PhD
• Author/Presenter: Jeffrey T. Yap PhD
• Author/Presenter: Ron Kikinis MD
• Author/Presenter: Valerie Humblet
• Author/Presenter: Wendy Plesniak PhD

Tenative plans to use 45 minutes for talk, 45 minutes for hands-on.

Can adjust lecture down to 35 minutes if necessary to accommodate more tutorial time.

Tenative plans are to adapt hands-on workshop from 2009, including Slicer3Minute, ChangeTracker, and PET/CT.

• Converted widescreen tutorial slides for 2010 (ppt) (developing on mac, testing as ppt)
• tutorial data in zip archive

• Alternative discussed by Jeff & Wendy, Slicer3Minute, Updated RECIST using Slicer's measurements module, and PET/CT.
• Jeff will provide:
  • Anonymized dataset including baseline and followup showing at least 5 lesions
  • Note about WHICH lesions to measure (screenshots with each identified?)
  • Note about on which slice each lesion should be measured
  • Jeff -- 1 measurement or 2 orthogonal measurements?

If possible, we will modify this workshop to include Slicer3Minute, RECIST, PET/CT and DCEMRI.

• QA Testing for the slides

Quantitative Imaging Reading Room

The Quantitative Imaging Reading Room will be located in the Lakeside Learning Center (Hall E) of McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago. Setup: 11/27/2010 from 8AM-5PM. Tear-down: 12/03/2010 from 12:45PM-4PM.

Slicer Exhibit

• Title: 3D Slicer: An Open Source Application for Registration, Segmentation, Quantitative Analysis, and Visualization of Biomedical Image Data
• Focus: Interactive Editor, Volume Rendering, Tools for Quantitative Analysis
  • QA Testing for the slides
• Exhibitors:
  • A Fedorov
  • W Plesniak

Setup:

• Installing and Dismantling of Exhibits (Contact: Karen Hamm, khamm@rsna.org)
• Installing: 8:00am-5:00pm, Saturday, November 27, 2010
• Exhibit must be fully installed by 5:00pm on Saturday, November 27.
• Lakeside Learning Center exhibit area will open on Saturday, November 27 at 8:00am.
• The Lakeside Learning Center will not be open for installation on Friday, November 26.

Exhibit Hours

• Exhibit should be accessible to attendees all six days of the meeting.
• The Lakeside Learning Center will be open according to the following schedule:
  • Sunday, Nov. 28, 8:00am – 6:00pm
  • Monday-Thursday, Nov. 29-Dec. 2, 7:00am – 10:00pm
  • Friday, Dec. 3, 7:00am – 12:45pm

Educational materials (link here as developed):

• templates (For the 2010 QI Reading Room Showcase, no poster, slide or handout templates exist; you are free to use your own formats (only restriction is poster size: poster must fit within a 76" x 47" area).)
• File:RSNA2010QIRRPoster.ppt poster FINAL(waiting Ron's sign-off) (usable poster area 76"wide x 40"high)
• File:RSNA2010QIRR-LoopSlides.ppt Looping slide FINAL(waiting Ron's sign-off) saved in ppt
• File:RSNA2010QIRRHandout.doc handouts FINAL(waiting Ron's sign-off) (word format)...
• File:RSNA2010QIRRHandout.pdf handouts FINAL(waiting Ron's sign-off) (pdf)...
• DEADLINE: All exhibit materials (poster, handouts, presentations, etc) must be submitted to RSNA for review and approval no later than Friday, October 29, 2010.

Meet the Experts sessions:

Slicer booth sessions are tenatively scheduled for:

• Monday November 29 (12:15-1:15pm)
• Wednesday December 1 (12:15-1:15pm)
• Thursday December 2 (12:15 - 1:15pm)

One hour Meet-the-Experts (MTE) sessions will be held in the QI Reading Room during specified times. The MTE sessions are an opportunity for representatives of your organization to interact with RSNA meeting attendees. The sessions may involve:

• Software demonstrations of quantitative imaging products and applications
• Educating practicing radiologists about strategies for and the importance of augmenting subjective image interpretation with quantitative measures
• Review of the present uses of quantitative imaging in research and in clinical practice
• General question and answer session
• There is NO maximum/limit to to amount of time an exhibitor may be at their booth or interact with meeting attendees.

Infrastructure provided:

Each exhibitor will be provided (no charge):

• One 6.5 foot long (2.0 m) counter (30 inches high) with two chairs
• A computer with 1GIG RAM, if needed
• Two multi-sync 19-inch flat screen LCD monitors,1280-1024 resolution, if needed
• An internet connection
• Electrical outlets
• Fixed poster panels which will accommodate a standard-size poster (usable display area: 77 inches wide x 40 inches high)

Dismantling:

• Exibits can be removed between 12:45pm-4:00pm, Friday, December 3, 2010
• Dismantling of exhibits may not begin before Friday, December 3 at 12:45pm and must be completed by 4:00pm.
• Any exhibits not dismantled or shipping arranged by 4:00pm on Friday, December 3 will be dismantled and shipped at the exhibitor’s expense.