2018 IGT: 10th National Image Guided Therapy Workshop Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel Boston, MA, United States, October 7, 2018

The overall goal of this workshop series is to foster a discourse in translational research in image-guided therapy in the NIH-funded community, and to communicate the availability of NCIGT as a national resource for tools and technologies in the field. Attendees include members of academia, hospitals, industry, and federal agencies interested in image-guided interventions.

Submission Guidelines

• Abstract submissions are solicited for the 10th National Image-Guided Therapy workshop, a translational research workshop that brings together NIH funded researchers in areas of image-guided surgery, interventional radiology, adaptive radiation therapy, image-guided drug delivery, image-guided robotics, imaging informatics, and related areas.  The workshop is a single track meeting that includes oral and poster presentations of refereed abstracts, invited talks, and individual interactions with NIH Programs Staff.

  Electronic submissions of all abstracts will be accepted until Friday, July 27, 2018, 11pm Pacific Standard Time on the Easy Chair Conference Management Website.

  Guidelines for Abstracts

• Abstracts should be 1 page (8.5 inch x 11 inch page, US letter size), submitted in acrobat pdf format, with 1 inch margins, maximum 6 lines per inch (single spaced in software such as MS Word), in size 11 Arial Font. Please click here for the IGT Workshop Abstract Template.
• Abstract submissions should include Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s), and five sections: Purpose, Methods, Results, Conclusions, Funding Source(s), identified by bold headers.
• Funding source(s) for the work, especially from the NIH, must be acknowledged in the abstract.
• Images in abstracts are encouraged.
• Please do not submit material that is not ready for public dissemination, or has been previously published in the form that you submit for this workshop.
• The program committee will review all submissions, and assign acceptances to either poster or oral presentation.
• All abstracts will be published in a workshop proceedings and made available publicly on the workshop website.

Guidelines for Oral Presentations

The speaking time is 10 minutes, and 5 minutes for questions.  Please plan to deliver the presentation using your own laptop computer.

Guidelines for Poster Presentations

The posters should be prepared in an electronic format of the authors’  choice, and presented using individual laptops at the meeting. Suggested format is 5-10 slides that can be cycled through in 10 minutes.

Committees

Program Committee

• Tina Kapur, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
• Kevin Cleary, PhD, Children's National Medical Center
• Maie St. John, MD, PhD, UCLA
• Keyvan Farahani, PhD, National Cancer Institute 
• Steven Krosnick, MD, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Workshop Coordinator

• Danielle Chamberlain, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Venue

Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel, 296 State Street, Boston. 

Phone:  (617) 227-0800.

Hotel reservation can be made directly with Marriott reservations at (800) 228-9290 or (617) 227-0800. Cutoff date for reservations is Friday, September 21, 2018. $309 for 10/6 (Saturday night). Parking $55/day, not validated.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Danielle Chamberlain.