CTSC:TTIC.100609

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Agenda:

1. Consultations
2. Feedback from ACRIN
3. Education program
4. MRI safety
5. Radiation safety/ dose safety
6. Examples to support pilot grant proposal
7. ARRA supplement
8. RSNA (DCE-MRI)
9. Talks scheduled at different institutions

In attendance:

• Valerie Humblet
• Jeff Yapp
• Randy Gollub
• Annick Van den Abbeele
• Bob Lenkinski
• Stephan Voss
• Todd Perlstein
• Ron Kikinis
• Simon Warfield

1. Update on imaging consultation requests

• There was no new consultation posted through the website this week.

2. Feedback from ACRIN

• The feedback after the educational session was very good. A comment that came several times is that there is a real need for training RA, Study Coordinator et all the people involved in clinical trial that are not MDs or PhDs.

3. Education program

• Ron insisted that the way to get more consultations is to start our education program. Training of the residents in quantitative imaging and Slicer hands-on workshops would be a good start. Valerie and Jeff will start planning Slicer demonstration at each hospital.
• Stephan insisted that in the CHB oncology group, there is also a need for more training in imaging for CRA, study coordinators etc.
• Annick got the same request from image analysts at DFCI that would like to get more training on the basis of imaging.