Meeting Highlights of the 11 th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Los Ang
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Meeting Highlights of the 11th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Los Angeles, February 1–3, 2008 Matthias G Friedrich*1, Warren J Manning2, Thoralf Niendorf3, Charles B Higgins4, Albert de Roos5 and Stefan Neubauer6 Address: 1Stephenson CMR Centre at the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 2T9, 2Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA, 3Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Technical University, Aachen, Germany, 4Department of Radiology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, 5Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands and 6Oxford University, Oxford, UK * Corresponding author
from 11th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions Los Angeles, CA, USA. 1–3 February 2008 Published: 22 October 2008 Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2008, 10(Suppl 1):I1
doi:10.1186/1532-429X-10-S1-I1
Abstracts of the 11th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions - 2008
Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1532-429X-10-S1-info.pdfThis article is available from: http://jcmr-online.com/content/10/S1/I1 © 2008 Friedrich et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
Abstract This paper features the most interesting presentations and discussions of the 2008 Annual Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, which were held in Los Angeles from February 1 to 3, 2008. With more than 1100 attendees, this was the largest of the SCMR meetings ever. Among this year's highlights were scientific reports on CMR-based risk assessment, non-contrast tissue characterization, 3 T data, and interventional CMR.
Introduction This year's Annual Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) were held from February 1 to 3 in Los Angeles, California. The meeting attracted a record number of more than 1100 attendees. The main program was the largest on CMR ever and featured a total of 41 sessions, among them 15 for oral abstract sessions, nine clinical, five on experimental MR, four with case discussions, two offering an informal "Coffee with the Expert", two on interventional sessions, two on congenital CMR, one on political aspects, and one for trainees. 154 invited talks provided state-of-the-art review on experimental and clinical CMR protocols, controversial aspects and new data. Among this year's areas of
interest were risk stratification of CMR, interventional CMR, molecular CMR, and tissue characterization in nonischemic cardiomyopathies. Among 532 submitted abstracts, 291 were accepted as posters, 12 as moderated posters, and 102 for oral presentations. Workshops Preceding the main meeting, an introductory physicians' CMR course (Chairs: Drs. David Bluemke and Peter Buser, University Hospital, Basel), a workshop on CMR at 3 T (Chair: Dr. Gerald Pohost), and a workshop on basic and experimental research in C
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