1 st EuroPACS
Academy Course
COURSE FACULTY
Erwin Bellon, (Leuven/BE)
Davide Caramella (Pisa/IT)
Lorenzo Faggioni (Pisa, IT)
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)
Marco Rengo (Rome, IT)
Jarmo Reponen (Oulu/F)
Osman Ratib (Geneva/ CH)
Laurence Sutton (Halifax/UK)
Duccio Volterrani (Pisa, IT)
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General information
Meeting venue
Hotel Green Park Resort
Linking research to clinical practice
Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy
Registration
Regular fee: 300 euros
Radiologists in Training and
Radiographers: 150 euros
Online registration and Hotel
accommodation available at
www.fclass.it
Course Director
Emanuele Neri, MD
Diagnostic and
Interventional Radiology
eneri@sirm.org
Pisa, Italy
25-26 September 2009

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
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)
EuroPACS
Academy
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
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.