MRI users enjoy formal lectures and networking

Senior MRI radiographer at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Kumaar Thiagarajan and senior radiographer at Vista Diagnostics InHealth, London, Shyam Bheemreddy won a quiz and received FC Barcelona shirts as a prize.

Canon Medical Systems returned to FC Barcelona for its two-day MRI users meeting.

With a full agenda, participants commented on the informative, well organised event that provided an opportunity to meet and network with other users, in addition to formal lectures.

The first session covered men’s health, concentrating on prostate cancer.  The opening presentation by Dr Jurgan Futterer from Nijmegen, the Netherlands, covered the anatomy of the prostate, detailing where the cancer was most likely to be situated, size of the zones, how the cancer is scored using the Gleason score and the importance of the tumour extent and tumour volume.  This was followed by a session on the technical aspects of prostate cancer imaging, highlighting the use of multi-parametric studies.  Gleason scoring for radiologists was then covered, followed by an explanation of the post-processing tool PIRAD 1 and 2.

See the full report on page 15 of the May 2018 issue of RAD Magazine.