Oral Communications and Posters
Oral Communications and Posters will be chosen among the abstracts sent by participants.
All the selected papers will be published on a dedicated issue of Neuroradiology, the official Journal of the European Society of Neuroradiology, which will be distributed to all participants together with the Congress Kit.
The best poster will concur to the ESNR 2009 awards: further information will be available in the Congress web site.

UEMS - European Union of Medical Specialists
UEMS credits will be asked to the Union of European Medical Specialists.
They are valid all over Europe, the United States and Canada (reciprocity agreement with the American Medical Association).

Abstract Submission - Instructions
Abstracts should be submitted electronically no later than April 30, 2009 by the online abstract submission.
Abstracts received by fax will not be considered: should you have any problems with the online submission, please, contact the Organizing Secretariat AIM Group - AIM Congress (esnr2009@aimgroup.it).

• The presenting author of an accepted abstract must register and attend the Congress
• Acknowledgement of receipt of the submission will be sent to the e-mail address stated under section "Personal details"
• Notification on acceptance of the abstracts will be e-mailed by May 31, 2009
• The corresponding author will receive all correspondence concerning the abstract and is responsible for informing the other authors of the status of the abstract
• Upon submission, indicate your preferred presentation form (oral or poster) and one of the following category that best describes the abstract:
  - cerebrovascular disease-imaging and intervention
  - imaging of brain tumors-multimodality approach
  - head and neck imaging and intervention
  - imaging of the spine and spinal cord
  - spinal interventions
  - inflammatory, demyelinating and degenerative diseases of the brain
  - imaging in epilepsy
  - pediatric neuroradiology
  - advanced imaging modalities
  - molecular imaging
  - free topics
• Abstracts must be written in English
• Abstracts should contain only original material not published elsewhere prior to September 17, 2009
• The complete abstract must not exceed 2.500 characters including spaces (approx. 250 words)
• All abbreviations must be defined the first time they appear in the text, before being used as an abbreviation only
• Structured abstracts are mandatory. The abstracts should state clearly the Purpose, Methods, Results and Conclusions. Abstracts should be informative and not just promise further investigation
• Tables, charts or other graphics should not be included and may be deleted by the editors
• It is the author's responsibility to submit a correct abstract; any errors in spelling, grammar or scientific fact will be reproduced as typed by the author, if accepted.
  Please follow carefully the instructions reported in the online pages and fill in all the requested fields, in order to guarantee a correct and complete publication of the text.
  Changes to abstracts can only be accepted until the deadline and can be added in the text using the User ID and Password received upon submission
• Should the author wish to withdraw the abstract after the deadline, he/she will have to inform the Organizing Secretariat by email or fax