The following selected presentations will take place at the ECR conference on Saturday, March 3.

Mar 2, 2001

Special focus session: Controveries in mammographic screening
Moderator: G. Wolf, Vienna
8:30 a.m.-10 a.m., Room E2
Topics: When and why to screen for breast cancer, screening for women ages 40-50, interpreting screening results.

Chest imaging: Technical aspects and new developments
Moderators: T. Franquet, Barcelona
C. J. Herold, Vienna
10:30 a.m.-noon, Room F1
Topics: Evaluation of pulmonary nodules with multislice CT, MRI of lung parenchyma

Interventional Radiology: Percutaneous tumor ablation
Moderators: R.D. Garcia-Monaco, Buenos Aires
K. Hiramatsu, Tokyo
10:30 a.m.-noon, Room H
Topics: Radiofrequency ablation of liver metastases, survival following thermal ablation

Cardiac: Heart CT
Moderators: R. Rienmuller, Graz, Austria
V.E. Sinitsyn, Moscow
10:30 a.m.-noon, Room N/O
Topics: Effects of heart rate on image quality of retrospectively ECG-gated CT, electron
beam CT and constrictive pericarditis

Breast: Digital mammography
Moderators: U. Fischer, Gottingen, Germany
A. Skjennald, Oslo
2-3:30 p.m., Room E2 Topics: Full-field digital mammography, tumor detection with commercially available CAD system

Computer Applications: Imaging processing and analysis
Moderators: A. Skretting, Oslo
B.M. ter Haar Romeny, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2-3:30 p.m.. Room G
Topics: A Jini service to reconstruct SPECT data, RheumaCoach, automatic detection of
pulmonary nodules at spiral CT

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Honorary Lecture
Degenerative diseases of the vertebral column
D.L. Resnick, San Diego, CA, U.S.
noon