ISMRM 21st Annual Meeting & Exhibition ○ 20-26 April 2013 ○ Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
WEEKDAY EDUCATIONAL COURSE
Added Value of DWI for Your Clinical Practice
SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate to Advanced
ORGANIZERS: Masoom A. Haider, M.D., F.R.C.P.C. & Elizabeth A. Morris, M.D., F.A.C.R.
Monday, 22 April 2013
 
OVERVIEW
This 2 hour course will focus on the role of DWI, with a view to meeting current challenges in clinical diagnosis and management. The course is structured based on optimized DWI strategies by anatomic site. Examples of the incremental value of DWI in cancer diagnosis, therapeutic response assessment and tumor detection will be covered.
 
TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is designed for physicians (radiologists and oncologists) and for clinical support scientists who wish to gain knowledge concerning clinical problems and how DWI can aid in clinical cancer problem solving.
 
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

  • Describe various body diffusion weighted imaging protocols and recognize potential technical and clinical pitfalls; and
  • Apply body diffusion weighted imaging protocol to characterization of liver and renal lesions.
 

PROGRAM

Moderators: Dow-Mu Koh, M.D., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.R. & Anwar R. Padhani, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.P.
         
16:30 Liver Lesions: Added Value of Diffusion MRI Bachir Taouli, M.D.
16:50 Renal Lesions: Added Value of Diffusion MRI Harriet C. Thoeny, M.D.
17:10 Pelvis: Added Value of Diffusion MRI Nandita M. DeSouza, M.D., F.R.C.R.
17:30 Response to Treatment Kinh Gian Do, M.D., Ph.D.
17:50 Bones Anwar R. Padhani, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.P.
18:10     Round Table & Tweets  
         
18:30     Adjournment