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Tuesday, June 29, 2021 - A packed three-day programme awaits onsite and online attendees of the European Congress of Radiology 2021 Summer Edition taking place from July 1-3. The congress will take on the three fascinating topics of interventional, cardiovascular and neuroradiology in an event inspired by ECR’s popular ‘Cube’ concept. The event is organised by Programme Director, Prof. Christian Loewe, and coordinators Dr. Maximilian de Bucourt and Prof. Majda M. Thurnher under the patronage of Prof. Michael Fuchsjäger in his function as ESR Chairman of the Board of Directors. 

The congress will feature a mix of...

The ESR is proud to announce the publication of the updated version of the Undergraduate Curriculum for Radiological Education.

Thyroid nodules are a common pathology having a prevalence of 19-76% when screened with ultrasound, with higher frequencies in women. Current medical methods used to assess the malignancy of a nodule consist in performing an ultrasound, followed by a Doppler ultrasound, and then a biopsy. However, unfortunately, these methods present both low specificity and low sensitivity. This insufficient effectiveness in accurately being able to diagnose thyroid tumors leads to many unclear or unnoticed cases as well as many others that...

The European Society of Radiology is proud to have been awarded the European Commission Tender ‘European co-ordinated action on improving justification of computed tomography’ (acronym: EU-JUST-CT). 

The project started on 7 April 2021 and will last until March 2024. The formal kick-off meeting with the European Commission took place yesterday, on 20 May 2021.  

The project is led by Prof. Boris Brkljacic (University of Zagreb School of Medicine, HR) and co-led by Ms. Alexandra Karoussou-Schreiner (Ministry of Health, LU) and aims to improve justification of computed...

April 16, 2021 - This week, the European School of Radiology (ESOR) held its very first online AIMS seminar hosted by Mexico. The course, which focussed exclusively on the topic of ultrasound, was run in partnership with the Mexican Federation of Radiology and Imaging (FMRI) and the Mexican Society of Radiology (SMRI), and was supported by Bracco. With 724 attendees, the success and popularity of the seminar once again demonstrated the huge potential that online learning offers for the medical...