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VirtualScopics' Chief Scientific Officer to Lecture on the Advantages of Quantitative Imaging

VirtualScopics , Inc. , a leading provider of quantitative imaging for clinical trials, announced that its Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Edward Ashton, will be an invited lecturer at the upcoming International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Annual Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.
 
Dr. Ashton's lecture, entitled Quantitative MR in Multi-Center Clinical Trials, is scheduled for Wednesday, May 5, 2010.  The lecture will be an extension of Dr. Ashton's recently published article in the February issue of the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (JMRI).  Dr. Ashton will review the benefits of using quantitative MR imaging in clinical trials, and explore the challenges of developing and deploying an MR protocol across numerous and varied MR systems and software versions.

Dr. Ashton will be speaking on two other occasions during the conference.  He will be a member of the MR in Drug Research study group discussing the use of MRI for oncology drug development.  Additionally, Dr. Ashton will be presenting a poster entitled Comparison of Diffusion and DCE-MRI as Markers for Response to Therapy in Hepatocellular Cancer Patients.

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine is an international, nonprofit, scientific association whose purpose is to promote communication, research, development, and applications in the field of magnetic resonance in medicine.  The ISMRM Annual Meeting is considered to be among the most prestigious conferences in the medical imaging industry.

Source: VirtualScopics