The SINFONIA project finished by the end of August 2024, but our project team is still engaged a lot and disseminating the project results at different events. Therefore, the project will also be featured at the forthcoming European Congress of Radiology 2025 (Vienna/Austria, 26 February – 2 March 2025).
Prof. John Damilakis, Scientific Coordinator, will give a talk in the session EIBIR 20 – Working in partnership towards highest quality and safety in imaging: implementing the SAMIRA Action Plan of the European Commission.
Date: March 1, 14:00 – 15:30 CET
Room: ACV – Room 02
Detailed programme:
- Chairperson’s introduction (Georgi Simeonov, Luxembourg / Luxembourg)
- Improving cancer care with precise radiation risk assessment: results and recommendations from the SINFONIA project (John Damilakis, Iraklion / Greece)
- Towards adoption of optimisation measures using image quality assessment and dose evaluation in the EU member states: lessons learned from the i-Violin project (Christoph Hoeschen, Magdeburg / Germany)
- European recommendations on reporting and learning from patient-related incidents and near misses in interventional and diagnostic radiology from the MARLIN project (Deniz Akata, Ankara / Turkey)
- Improving justification in CT: implementing the findings and recommendations of the EU-JUST-CT project (Boris Brkljačić, Zagreb / Croatia)
- Boosting clinical audit in radiology and nuclear medicine: the European CLAUD-IT project (Roman Klöckner, Lübeck / Germany)
- Towards easy-to-use and manageable quality and safety key performance indicators for imaging (Anoushka Davé, Brighton / United Kingdom)
- Panel discussion: How to foster the uptake by EU member states’ health systems?
This session will also be available online for free*. Session details are available here.
Moreover, Mona Azizi will present their work in the session RPS 913 – Striving for lower radiation dose and better image quality. She will talk about Accounting for imaging dose in Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients undergoing PBS proton therapy and photon VMAT: a SINFONIA study at the Research Stage 1 on February 27, 12:30 – 13:30 CET. Details are available here.

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