Summary of International Neurosonology '97 meeting details
WINSTON-SALEM -- Researchers from throughout the world will be coming to Winston-Salem next week to report dramatic and newsworthy findings from a broad spectrum of investigations at International Neurosonology '97 -- only the second time the meeting has been held in the United States.
The latest developments in ultrasound for diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, strokes and a panoply of other diseases will be discussed at this Seventh Meeting of the Neurosonology Research Group of the World Federation of Neurology from Aug 13-16.
Specialists will present dozens of invited lectures, 84 investigator-initiated platform presentations, and more than 130 scientific posters. Press briefings are being scheduled for research reported in more than one-dozen embargoed press releases and for other research projects that turn out to be newsworthy.
In addition, news-making tutorials and courses will be offered, particularly in the area of the transcranial Doppler, which was first used in the United States at Bowman Gray/Baptist Hospital Medical Center more than a decade ago. Now it is being used in children for everything from detecting malformations and other problems to determining brain death, and in adults for a host of problems.
Among the new developments, techniques and applications to be discussed are 3-D ultrasound, power Doppler imaging, use of contrast agents (to improve the visibility of the arteries under ultrasound), new methods for detecting cerebral emboli, use of ultrasound in interventional neurovascular procedures, and measuring flow rates through arteries to improve diagnosis of cerebrovascular disorders.
The scientists also will be talking about other new arenas, such as the use of ultrasound to study cerebrovascular effects of drugs, migraine, epilepsy, dementia, and physiological states, to evaluate brain injury, brain swelling and coma and the effects of asphyxia or infections and to evaluate neuromuscular diseases or injuries.
The meeting is sponsored by the World Federation of Neurology and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University.
The registration fee will be waived for accredited news media and other members of the working press. A press room, press conference room, and interview room will be available.
The convention hotel is the Adams Mark; other hotels also are available near the Benton Convention Center, where the meeting will take place. The nearest major airport is Piedmont Triad International Airport 17 miles away; however, better connections are often available at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport or Raleigh-Durham Airport, both about 90 minutes away.
For further information, contact Bob Conn ([email protected]) or Mark Wright ([email protected]) at 910-716-4587 or Anne Watterson at 910-716-4494, fax: 910-716-9334, or email: [email protected], or look at the conference web site, http://www.sime.com/nsrg/neurosonology97.htm
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