Make sure you make the most of the free CPD opportunities available at this year’s UKRCO conference in Manchester by booking your place at Education on the Stand.
These sessions, some of which will be CPD Now endorsed, provide you with a valuable opportunity to pick up new skills, learn new techniques and enhance your knowledge and understanding.
Below, you will find a list of the Education on the Stand sessions with information on how you can book your place and avoid disappointment.
This information will be updated with additional courses up until the conference begins. Check back regularly to ensure you don’t miss out!
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Accuray International, stand 8
Accuray Precision
An Overview of Radixact Treatment Planning Capabilities (hands-on demonstration)
Times: Monday 10am, Tuesday 12pm, Wednesday 3pm
Accuray Precision
Elegant solutions for adaptive treatment workflows (hands-on demonstration)
Times: Monday 12pm, Tuesday 10am, Wednesday 12pm
Carestream, stand 22
Masterclass sessions available for Carestream RIS, PACS & VNA users
One hour sessions available with our applications specialist for you to have training on a subject of your choice.
Booking: Please email Jane Grimsley: [email protected]
Monday: 9:30am, 10:30am, 11:30am, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm
Tuesday: 9:30am, 10:30am, 11:30am, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm
Wednesday: 9:30am, 10:30am, 11:30am, 1:30pm
Cobalt, stand 7
Under the covers – what’s inside your MRI scanner?
Booking: Email [email protected] to book your place
Monday 10am and 1pm
Tuesday 11am and 2pm
MRI explained in 15 minutes
Booking: Email [email protected]
Monday 11am and 2pm
Tuesday 10am and 1pm
DOSIsoft, stand 18
Phantom-free EPID-based pretreatment verification.
Description: Presentation of a smart workflow based on the web technology.
Monday 10-11am
DuPont Protection Solutions, stand 18
Safe handling of oncology drugs
The aim of this session is to provide guidance on people/process protection to individuals and organisations involved in handling cytostatic substances.
Monday 11am
Tuesday 11am
Wednesday 11am
Flen Health, stand 15
A new hydroactive colloid gel for the treatment of radiotherapy-induced skin reactions.
An overview of significant new evidence and a proposed treatment pathway.
Monday 11am
Tuesday 11am
Wednesday 11am
Fujifilm UK Ltd, stand 91-95
Fujifilm’s artificial intelligence and dose reduction in radiography
Introducing how AI such as Virtual Grid and Dynamic visualisation is evolving
Booking: Email: [email protected] (subject: UKRC CPD)
Monday: 11am, 3:30pm
Tuesday: 11am, 12 noon, 2pm 3:30pm
Child’s Play
A practical experience of using Fujifilm’s D-EVO DR detector in a paediatric hospital
Monday: 1pm
Tuesday: 1pm
Booking: Email: [email protected] (subject: UKRC CPD)
GE Healthcare, stand 77
Dose & Image Quality Optimisation: Structuring your Image Optimisation Team (IOT).
Monday: 1:20-1:40pm
Tuesday: 10:30-10:50 and 1:20-1:40pm
Wednesday: 1:20-1:40pm
Guerbet, stand 24-27
Update on gadolinium accumulation in the brain and its link with gadolinium based contrast agents (GBCAs)
• Brief overview of GBCAs
• Clinical cases: Detection of hyper-signals in Unenhanced T1 weighted MR images in brain.
• Data showing that hyper-signals correspond to gadolinium accumulation in the brain
• Stability and safety of GBCAs
Booking: Book on the stand on the day
Talks will take place throughout the duration of the conference on the hour every hour. Exact times to be confirmed on the day.
Safety of gadolinium based contrast agents (GBCAs)
• Of types of adverse reactions associated with GBCAs
• Comparison of adverse reactions in commonly used GBCAs on the basis of published data
• Gadolinium accumulation in brain after the use of GBCAs
Booking: Book on the stand on the day
Talks will take place throughout the duration of the conference on the hour every hour. Exact times to be confirmed on the day.
Hepato Cellecular Carcinoma (HCC): efficacy and safety of different treatments
• Brief overview of HCC & the established guidelines for it’s treatment
• Treatment options for HCC
• Focus on trans-arterial chemo-embolisation (TACE) as an effective mode of treatment for HCC
• Safety & efficacy data for TACE in the light of published data.
Booking: Book on the stand on the day
Talks will take place throughout the duration of the conference on the hour every hour. Exact times to be confirmed on the day.
Hysterosalpingography (HSG): Can oil-soluble contrast media (OSCM) increase the chances of pregnancy: an update.
• Brief overview of Infertility in Women & Treatment Options
• Review of clinical data for the link of pregnancy with the use of OSCM in HSG.
Booking: Book on the stand on the day
Talks will take place throughout the duration of the conference on the hour every hour. Exact times to be confirmed on the day.
Update on NSF (Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis)
• Definition & symptoms of NSF
• The role of transmetallation in NSF
• The role of stability of gadolinium based (MRI) contrast media in NSF
• Reported confirmed unconfounded clinical cases of NSF
• Potential prevention of NSF
Booking: Book on the stand on the day
Talks will take place throughout the duration of the conference on the hour every hour. Exact times to be confirmed on the day.
Contrast induced nephropathy
• Definition of CIN
• The pathophysiology of CIN
• The risk factors related to CIN
• The role of osmolality and viscosity of the contrast agent in CIN
• A detailed analysis of Iso-osmolar contrast agent and Low-Osmolar contrast agents and their role in the aetiology of CIN
• Potential prevention of CIN
Booking: Book on the stand on the day
Talks will take place throughout the duration of the conference on the hour every hour. Exact times to be confirmed on the day.
LGBT Cancer Support Alliance
Improving clinical consultations with LGBT patients
Learn how to use language relating to the LGBT community in a clinical setting.
Booking: Email [email protected]
Monday 11:20-11:30am
Tuesday 1:30-1:40pm
Wednesday 9:30-9:40am
Proud2BSmokefree: smoking, the LGBT community and cancer
Hear new recommendations to tackle higher rates of smoking in the LGBT community.
Booking: Email [email protected]
Monday 1:30-1:40pm
Tuesday 10:50-11am, 3:50-4pm
Oncology Systems Ltd, stand 24 & 35
What is multi-parametric MR and how can it help diagnose prostate cancer?
Monday: 11:15am
Tuesday: 12:45pm, 3:45pm
Evaluating the CAD software Watson Elementary for prostate cancer detection using mp-MRI
Monday: 1:15pm
Tuesday: 10:45am
Wednesday: 9:30am
Philips, stand 45
Dose reduction and workflow improvement with Philips SkyFlow
We will explain the function of digital scatter correction (Philips SkyFlow), its impact on clinical workflow, image quality and dose.
Booking: Email [email protected] to register your place. Alternatively, visit our stand and register on the day. Please note there are limited spaces per session and we would recommend registering in advance.
Monday 9:30-10am, 2:30-3pm
Tuesday 7 June 9-9:30am, 1:15-1:45pm
The developing role of diagnostic MR in radiotherapy
Showing the important role that the diagnostic MR scanner will be able to play in the developing area of radiotherapy planning.
Booking: Email [email protected] to register your place. Alternatively, visit our stand and register on the day. Please note there are limited spaces per session and we would recommend registering in advance.
Monday 1-1:30pm
Tuesday 3:45-4:15pm
iMR – a model-based approach to iterative reconstruction
Explanation of iMR/ iterative reconstruction.
Booking: Email [email protected] to register your place. Alternatively, visit our stand and register on the day. Please note there are limited spaces per session and we would recommend registering in advance.
Monday 1:45-2:15pm
Tuesday 2:30-3pm
Spectral CT – exploring the possibilities
Explanation of spectral CT and Dual energy imaging techniques and acquisition
Booking: Email [email protected] to register your place. Alternatively, visit our stand and register on the day. Please note there are limited spaces per session and we would recommend registering in advance.
Monday 12-12:30pm
Tuesday 11:30am-12pm
Comprehensive dose management across modalities
Highlight the potential influence the upcoming EU Directive regarding Dose Management can have on your day to day activities.
Booking: Email [email protected] to register your place. Alternatively, visit our stand and register on the day. Please note there are limited spaces per session and we would recommend registering in advance.
Monday 11:15-11:45am, 3:30-4pm
Tuesday 10:45-11:15am, 12:30-1pm
PTW –UK Ltd, stand 4 & 5
Beamscan – a new era in beam data scanning, featuring a novel method of ensuring data is as accurate as possible
Booking: Email [email protected]
Monday 1:40-2pm Tuesday 12:40-1pm
Octavius4D – true independence in plan verification, featuring Verisoft analysis software and non-coplanar delivery quantification
Booking: Email [email protected]
Tuesday 10:40-11am Wednesday 09:20-9:50am
Track-it: An intuitive solution for inter-discipline data archiving and analysis
Booking: Email [email protected]
Monday 11:10-11:40am
Tuesday 1:40-2pm
Siemens Healthineers, stand 79
CT dose
Dose reducing and management features available on the range of Siemens CT scanners, and options for recording and optimising resultant doses.
Booking: www.siemens.co.uk/ukrc
10:30-11am every day
New 3D technology in general x-ray
Our new Multitom Rax system for general x-ray has the technology to undertake general x-ray, fluoroscopy and 3D examinations all on one x-ray machine without compromising on image quality.
Booking: www.siemens.co.uk/ukrc
11:00-11:30am every day
MRI – The patient experience
To reduce acoustic noise we will be presenting a how to use quiet suite, to reduce time we will be presenting Go Brain and our different parallel imaging
Booking: www.siemens.co.uk/ukrc
11:30am-12pm every day
Whole body MR
With recent changes to NICE guidelines whole body MRI is now a hot topic in the UK. We will present a how to guide for whole body imaging based on David Hillier’s paper in the ISMRM edition of the Magnetometer Flash.
Booking: www.siemens.co.uk/ukrc
1-1:30pm every day
Basics of Cardiac CT
We will look at the most important factors for successful cardiac CT including the indications for examinations, patient preparation, and basic cardiac anatomy.
Booking: www.siemens.co.uk/ukrc
1:30-2pm every day
Visbion, stand 65 & 69
VNA – From radiology to synthetic biology
An exploration of how the VNA has evolved and making the most of it in the radiology department and beyond.
Booking not required but can be booked by emailing[email protected]and using the subject line ‘UKRC Visbion VNA Session’
Monday: 11.15
Tuesday: 10.45