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On behalf of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, we are pleased to invite you to take part in our 8th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, to be held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado, USA, 1-7 April 2000.
The 1999 Scientific Meeting and Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, had the best attendance of any ISMRM meeting, with over 3,400 scientific delegates. We anticipate our meeting growth pattern to continue into the millennium, with the 2000 convention offering you the year's largest audience of scientists and clinicians working in the field of magnetic resonance as related to medicine and biology.
The technical exhibits will be on display for four days during the meeting, from 3 through 6 April. The Exhibition will be located in Exhibit Hall C in the Colorado Convention Center. Coffee areas will be located in the technical exhibition area. We continue to permit exhibitors to offer refreshment in their booths if they wish.
On 1 and 2 April 2000, educational programs will be offered, beginning with a two-day course on magnetic resonance spectroscopy, with emphasis on clinical applications and biomedical research topics. An introductory course on MR imaging will be offered, as well as four one-day programs on advanced neuroimaging, advanced body MR imaging, advanced MR angiography, and the very popular RF Bootcamp, presenting the theoretical and practical aspects of designing and constructing RF coils. The Section for Magnetic Resonance Technologists will also hold their Annual Meeting during this weekend. The Scientific Meeting will follow from 3 through 7 April 2000. The Lauterbur Lecture will be given by Richard R. Ernst, Ph.D. His lecture is titled, "Fourier's Heritage." As in previous years, we anticipate that approximately 2,000 presentations on the latest technical, scientific, and clinical subjects in the field of MR will be made. In addition to the parallel oral sessions, poster-viewing sessions, clinical focus sessions, and morning categorical and clinical categorical courses so successful in recent years, the Scientific Program Committee have also planned to continue the courses specifically designed for clinicians during the week of the scientific meeting.
This year, a special symposium, entitled "Strategies for Successful Clinical Research: FDA Approval, Grantsmanship, Funding Opportunities, and the Grants Process" will be presented, and the successful four-day course entitled "MR Physics and Techniques for Clinicians" will again be offered.
The Scientific Meetings of the ISMRM continue to emphasize bringing together delegates from many disciplines and many countries, whose common ground is their involvement with magnetic resonance. Your participation is vital to the success of the meeting. We look forward to seeing you in Denver.
Sincerely yours,
Jane E. Tiemann, Executive Director
Cordie L. Miller, Meetings Coordinator