ISMRM 23rd Annual Meeting and Exhibition 2015 ○ 30 May-05 June 2015 ○ Toronto, ON, Canada

An electronic poster (E-Poster) is a poster in PowerPoint format, allowing the inclusion of movies, and other multi-media formats, and presenters are encouraged to take advantage of the versatility of this medium. The Power Poster e-posters will be presented at numbered plasma screens in the Exhibition Hall. The time allotted for Power Poster e-poster presentations is 60 minutes, and authors are requested to be at their assigned plasma screen for the period of time specified in the acceptance message. During this time you will be available for discussion of your e-poster. A formal presentation is not necessary.

You will be informed of your program number as well as your plasma screen assignment before the meeting. However, when you arrive at the meeting, check the program to confirm the day, time and monitor for your presentation, in case there have been last minute changes.

All submissions must be in Microsoft PowerPoint format. Only one PowerPoint file may be submitted per electronic poster.

The Speaker Ready Room will be 808 Swing Space. Presentations that are submitted on-site in the speaker ready room may not be available for viewing immediately. Any changes made during the conference may take up to 24 hours to update in poster area. Please review your submission thoroughly before submission.

Maximum presentation size: 200 MB

All computers in the poster area are exactly the same and come standard with:
• Windows 8.1
• Microsoft PowerPoint (Office 2013)

The recommended video formats are:
• MPEG4-AVC using H.264/AAC (.mp4)
• Windows Media Video (.wmv)

Other acceptable video formats:
• AVI (.avi) – a limited number of CODECs are supported.
• MOV (.mov) – QuickTime movies are the least compatible and are discouraged

The plasma monitors displaying the presentations will be widescreen 16:9 [rectangle] format.
All animations and video files must be set to play automatically.
Slides will be advanced by mouse click.
Presentations will be produced for the web after the conference. Each slide will last approximately 7 seconds.
Avoid using small images and text if possible.
Check your presentation for hyperlinks (links to the Internet, e-mail addresses, or other documents) and remove them.
There are no computer speakers, so please do not include audio in your presentation.

A note to Apple Macintosh users:
The PowerPoint file must have the .ppt or .pptx suffix to be accepted.

FAQ

Why can’t I use Apple Keynote, Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), or Adobe Flash (.FLA) for the electronic poster area?
The software used to convert the electronic posters into web friendly files does not support Keynote, Acrobat, or Flash native files.

Why not just use Macintosh computers in the electronic poster area?
The web browser on the Macintosh computer does not support embedded PowerPoint files. To make this function work would entail extensive software development. This feature is built-in to the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer.

• Each slide should illustrate a single point or idea.
• Use large, legible letters.
• Do not crowd the slide.
• Message slides should contain no more than 7 lines, with 7 or fewer words per line.

• Keep the data on slides simple. If you have a great deal of data, divide it among several slides. The content of a single slide should be easily comprehended in 20 seconds. Remember: seven lines per slide and seven words per line!
• Use large, legible letters.
• If your data slides are in color, use only light colors, such as white and yellow, on a dark background, such as dark blue. Do not use colors such as red or purple.
• Keep slides of radiographs light. Dense or dark slides project poorly in large rooms. Enlarging the significant areas and using arrows to point out the specific area or lesion often helps.
• Patient confidentiality must be protected, and the patient's a right to privacy should not be infringed without express informed consent. This includes removing identifying text in images, providing graphical overlays onto photographs, etc. No names should appear on the images.
• Avoid commercial reference unless mandatory. A logo or institutional identification should appear only on the first title slide. Do not use such identification as a header on each slide.

• Title of text slides should contain five or fewer words.
• Spaces between lines should be at least the height of an upper case letter.

• Use graphs rather than tables if possible.
• Keep tabular slides as brief as possible.
• Two or more simple slides are better than one complicated slide.
• Do not crowd the slide.
• Make the font as large as possible.

• Keep graphs simple.
• Round off figures.
• Limit the number of captions.
• Use line graphs to show trends or changing relationships.
• Use bar graphs to compare volumes.

• Simplify charts to keep them legible.
• Break up complex charts into a series of slides.

• There should be a running title at the top of all slides. This allows people to walk up in the middle of a presentation and understand immediately which poster is being presented. This should include both program number and title. Separate the running title and program number visually. For example, if the text and number are placed within a box of a slightly different color, they would be separated visually.
• Each slide title should be placed in a title placeholder. This allows that title to come across in the hyperlinks on the left bar.
• Consider putting something catchy into the title slide. Examples are a key result, a key picture, or a sentence describing the major result of the poster.
• The first slide should show the full title of your submission.
• The poster should be self-explanatory. Text should be brief and well organized.
• The text should make clear the significance of your research.
• The text should include (most likely as separate elements of the poster) your hypothesis, methods, results, and conclusions.
   

Speaker Ready Room

The speaker ready room will be located in 808 Swing Space.