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Bergen Abdominal Imaging Research Group presented at Radiological Society of North America, 2014
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The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) had its centennial celebration in December 2014 at the annual international radiological conference hosted in Chicago, USA. The conference offers the most comprehensive medical imaging program in the world with more than 300 courses covering topics ranging from state of the art clinical radiology to cutting-edge research and the latest in radiology informatics. This year >30,000 professionals (radiologists, radiographers, physicists, informaticians) attended the conference. Furthermore, >30,000 attendees represented the >700 exhibitors (e.g. Siemens, GE, Philips) showcasing their newest products and innovations within medical imaging.
Jenny Aase Husby who is a PhD student in the Bergen Abdominal Imaging Research Group, and is a co-worker in the project “Functional imaging for individualized cancer treatment”, gave a presentation at RSNA, 2014. Husby was the only Norwegian radiologist selected to present at RSNA this year.
The title of Husby’s presentation was: Metabolic tumor volume on FDG-PET/CT predicts deep myometrial invasion, lymph node metastases and survival in patients with endometrial carcinoma (Jenny Aase Husby, Bernt Christian Reitan, Jone Trovik, Øyvind Salvesen, Martin Biermann, Helga Salvesen and Ingfrid Haldorsen).
