1 St Europacs Academy Course

1 st EuroPACS Academy Course COURSE FACULTY Erwin Bellon, (Leuven/BE) Davide Caramella (Pisa/IT) Lorenzo Faggioni (Pisa, IT)

General information Meeting venue Hotel Green Park Resort Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy

Linking research to clinical practice

Evelina Fantacci (Pisa, IT) Riccardo Ferrari (Rome, IT) Gabriella Iussich (Candiolo/IT) Heinz Lemke (Leipzig/GE) Paolo Marcheschi (Pisa, IT) Laura Martincich (Candiolo/IT) Emanuele Neri (Pisa/IT) Ewa Pietka (Gliwice/PL)

Registration Regular fee: 300 euros Radiologists in Training and Radiographers: 150 euros Online registration and Hotel accommodation available at www.fclass.it

Marco Rengo (Rome, IT) Jarmo Reponen (Oulu/F) Osman Ratib (Geneva/ CH) Laurence Sutton (Halifax/UK) Duccio Volterrani (Pisa, IT)

Course Director Emanuele Neri, MD Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology [email protected]

www.europacs.org

Pisa, Italy 25-26 September 2009

EuroPACS Academy

Course Program

Day 1 (25th September) 8:30 – 10:00 - PACS AND STANDARDS Basics concepts of PACS (L. Sutton/UK) Basics and overview of standards (E. Bellon/BE) 10:00- 10.30 Break 10:30-12:00 - IMAGING INFORMATICS: OPEN SOURCE Open Source PACS (P. Marcheschi/IT) The Open Source Image Processing Software Osirix (O. Ratib/CH) 12:00 - 13:00 WORKSTATIONS FACE-OFF 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

Day 2 (26th September) 08:30-10:00 - HOT TOPICS IN PACS Teleradiology (J. Reponen/F) PACS in the surgical room and in interventions (H. Lemke/GE) 10:00- 10.30 Break 10:30-13:00 HOT TOPICS IN IMAGE PROCESSING. HOW I DO IT How do I process: cardiac and vessels CT data (M. Rengo, IT) How do I process: CT colonography with CAD (R. Ferrari, IT) How do I process: CT perfusion datasets (L. Faggioni, IT) How do I process: multimodality data (D. Volterrani, IT) 13:00 Lunch 14:00 End of the course

14:00-15:30 - 2D, 3D AND 4D IMAGE PROCESSING State of the art in Image Processing Tools (O. Ratib/CH) Workstations and image interpretation (E. Neri/IT) 15:30 – 16:00 Break 16:00-18:00 - CAD CAD principles (E. Pietka/PL) CAD applications (colon) (G. Iussich/IT) CAD applications (lung) (E. Fantacci /IT) CAD applications (breast) (L. Martincich/IT)

On request: Guided visit to the PACS installation of the Cisanello Hospital (Pisa); organized by Fuji Hands-on workshops on dedicated workstations will be provided by companies.