Poster Presentations

Poster Presentations

Regulations for poster presentations

Abstracts for scientific posters must comply with the following structure:

Purpose
State the purpose of the study. The purpose should be clear and concise. The purpose might not exceed the length of one sentence.

Materials and Methods
Please give information regarding institutional review board approval and informed consent. For studies involving animals, indicate appropriate committee approval. The study should be identified clearly as prospective or retrospective (or retrospective interpretation of prospectively acquired data). Date range of study should be given which means date of inclusion of the first patient to the date of the inclusion of the last patient (month/year). Number of patients/animals (including mean age, standard deviation and age range, as well as gender, if appropriate) should be given. Various groups, including controls should be described. Procedures performed should be described. This includes in diagnostic imaging studies brief information about hard- and software (e.g. 1.5T MR scanner with 8-channel coils…) as well as main imaging protocols/sequences. Specifics of evaluation should parallel the results portion of the abstract. Include one sentence on statistical analysis.

Results
Provide the findings of the study including indicators of statistical significance. Crosscheck that for each evaluation and statistical analysis described in the “Materials and Methods” section of the abstract, the corresponding results are provided. The order of the results should parallel the order in the “Materials and Methods” section. Include actual numbers, as well as percentages. Provide p-values, if appropriate, to indicate statistical significance.

Conclusion
Summarize in one or two sentences the conclusion(s) made on the basis of the findings. Note: The purpose and the conclusion should act as a clamp to the study which means that the conclusion should be like an answer to the purpose statement.

Case reports are not accepted.

Abstracts for educational posters must comply with the following structure:

– Learning Objectives
– Background
– Imaging findings or procedure details
– Conclusion

Case reports are not accepted.

Language: Posters for SGR-SSR and for SGNM-SSMN need to be submitted and printed in English. For SVMTR-ASTRM, posters can be written in either French, English or German.
 
Length: All abstracts have to be submitted using a maximum of 2.000 characters (this does not apply to the printed version of the poster, but to the abstract submission only).

Format: The poster format is A0, portrait.

Poster Prizes

There are two prizes for scientific posters (summa cum laude; magna cum laude) and one prize for the best educational poster.

SGR-SSR Poster Walking Tour

The SGR-SSR “Poster Walking Tour” will take place on Thursday June 20, 2024.

Conditions for the eligibility of the poster for the poster award

– The Poster must be placed in the Poster Exhibition on Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 11:00 the latest.
– At least one of the authors must be present for discussion during the Poster Walking Tour. If none of the authors is present, the poster will not be considered for the award.
– The evaluation of the posters by the poster jury will take place prior to the congress as well as during the poster exhibition on site. All accepted posters shall be uploaded as pdf file through a link provided by us.  Deadline for the Upload is May 23rd, 2024.
– Posters not uploaded by the deadline or not placed onsite to be presented during the Poster Walking Tour will not be considered for the poster awards nor published in the Online Abstract Book.

The prizes will be awarded based on the decision of the poster jury. Prize winners will be officially announced on Thursday, June 20, 2024, after the Poster Walking Tour.

Please note that it is the responsibility of the Poster Presenter to print and place the Poster onsite!

SGNM-SSMN Poster Session

The SGNM-SSMN “Poster Walking Tour” will take place on Thursday June 20, 2024. At least one of the authors must be present for discussion during the SGNM-SSMN Poster Session. 

Please note that it is the responsibility of the Poster Presenter to print and place the Poster onsite!

All posters must be uploaded before May 23rd, 2024.

Onsite placement: Thursday, June 20, 2024, before 11:00
Displacement: Saturday, June 22, 2024 between 11:00 and 13:00. Posters not displaced after 13:00 will be discharged.
Please note that it is the responsibility of the Poster Presenter to print and place the Poster onsite!

Poster must be uploaded and mounted before the mentioned deadlines to be considered for the poster awards of the SGR-SSR.

Notification of acceptance or rejectionwill be sent out in February 2024 by email. If you wish to withdraw your paper after notification of acceptance or if you will not be able to attend the meeting, please inform the Congress Services as early as possible.

Only presentations and posters of presenters who have paid the appropriate registration fee will be accepted for the congress. If the presenting author is not registered until April 22, 2024, his/her abstract will not be published in the Online Abstract Book and he will not be allowed to hold the presentation or hang his poster.

Hanns-Christian Breit, Basel
Egon Burian, Thurgau
Matthias Eberhard, Zurich
Sabine Franckenberg, Zurich
Céline Habre, Geneva
Nicolas Linder, St. Gallen
Soonaz Malakzadeh, Sion
Thomas de Perrot, Geneva
Silvia Pistocchi, Lausanne
Chiara Pozzessere, Lausanne
Maurice Pradella, Basel
Thomas Ruder, Bern
Simone Schiaffino, Lugano
Soleen Stocker, Zurich
Estelle Tenisch, Lausanne
Naik Vietti-Voli, Lausanne
Franca Wagner, Bern
Lucien Widmer, Fribourg
Genti Xhepa, Lugano
Fabio Zanchi, Sion

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