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Weight-bearing3Dexams can get your patients back OnTrack. © Carestream Health, Inc., 2015. CARESTREAM is a trademark of Carestream Health. A world leader in diagnostic imaging is planning a revolution in Cone Beam CT. The CARESTREAM OnSight 3D Extremity System is being designed to be OnTarget with your needs – planned capabilities include weight-bearing extremity exams, easy patient access and superb 2D and 3D images. And, OnSight is projected to keep you OnBudget, with a price that’s truly affordable. So get ready – we’re designing OnSight to set a new pace for CBCT imaging. OnTrack. OnTarget. OnBudget. OnSight 3D Extremity System carestream.com INVESTIGATIONAL: NOT AVAILABLE FOR COMMERCIAL SALE This information for CBCT applies ONLY in the European Union. TRIM: 210mm X 297mm BLEED: + 5mm 220mm X 307mm www.healthcare-in-europe.com 7 EH @ ECR omarker Alliance (EIBALL), on imaging the fact that the sodium-potassium pump in healthy cells ensures that the sodium concentration within cells is higher than without. When a cell diseases, the ion pump is one of the first elements of the cell to be impaired. Consequently, tumour cells show a much higher sodium concentration than healthy cells. The European Imaging Biomarker Alliance This new MRI approach measures intracellular and extracellular sodi- um levels and ‘allows us to detect and quantify the earliest stages of cancer on the cellular level, the professor said. This might be rel- evant, for example, in breast cancer therapy: current imaging technolo- gies can visualise tumour response to chemotherapy after four to six weeks; sodium MRI might be able to do that within days. To support these new devel- opments, last year the European Society of Radiology (ESR) re-organ- ised its imaging biomarker activities: several subcommittees and working groups on imaging biomarkers were combined to form a single unit, the European Imaging Biomarker Alliance (EIBALL). ‘We aim to move imaging biomark- ers to clinical application,’ explained Trattnig, the EIBALL chairman. EIBALL cooperates with other organisations, such as the Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance (QIBA), which has been coordinating the biomarker imag- ing activities in the USA for several years. ‘QIBA drove technological development and designed a num- ber of standardised parameters,’ Trattnig said. ‘However, large mul- ticentre studies to compare several parameters cannot be conducted in the USA for bureaucratic reasons. In Europe it’s much easier to apply biomarkers in large clinical studies.’ EIBALL also works closely with the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), the coordinator of all large European multicentre cancer studies. ‘Until recently, oncological societies disregarded imaging due to the lack of standardisation; but now radiologists are members of the disease-oriented groups of EORTC,’ Trattnig is happy to report. Thus, for the first time, radiolo- gists are involved in the design of such studies and can ensure that imaging biomarkers are included. At the ECR, the European Imaging Biomarker Alliance will be present- ing itself for the first time in an afternoon session. ECR 2016 Thursday 3 March 16:00–17:30. Room F1 An introduction to the European Imaging Biomarkers Alliance (EIBALL) ECR 2016 Friday 4 March 8:30–10:00 a.m. Studio 2016 Biobanks meet imaging obank for medical imaging integration of imaging data with biobank databases. In a joint workshop in October 2015, the partners discussed collab- oration in detail and identified their common objectives under the guid- ance of ESR President, Professor Luis Donoso, the ESR Research Committee Chairperson, Prof. Hans- Ulrich Kauczor and the BBMRI-ERIC Director General Professor Jan-Eric Litton. The main goals of this collabora- tion are to promote the importance and visibility of imaging biobanks, to coordinate efforts to establish a European imaging biobank infra- structure and to ensure its linking to existing biobanks. The two organisations will work together on the linking of MIABIS 2.0 (Minimum Information About Biobank data Sharing) with DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) and with regard to the BBMRI-ERIC Directory 2.0, a tool for sharing aggregate information about the biobanks that are willing to start external collaboration. g imaging s’

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