GUIDELINES FOR MULTI-MEDIA E-POSTER PRESENTERS

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• 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.
• Limit the number of slides to no more than one (1) for each minute of your presentation. The slides should not contain your entire presentation. Their purpose is to support your talk and to emphasize the important points.

• 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.
   
• Hyperlinks may be included to help navigate through the poster at the conference center. However, they will not be active on the archived versions.
   
• Sound may be used for the archived version. You may record up to 10 minutes of sound through the Powerpoint “record narration” function. However, the recorded narration or other sound will not be available at the convention center.

• A clear, simple, uncluttered arrangement is the most attractive and the easiest to read on the monitor.
   
• For best legibility, it is suggested that the title lettering be at least 2"/5cm high, with authors' names and affiliations in somewhat smaller print.
   
• It is suggested that type size should be at least 24 point. The typeface chosen should be a simple and clear one (e.g., Helvetica).
   
• Color should be used sparingly, to provide contrast. The featured parts of the poster can be highlighted with warm colors, and the less important parts can be done in cool colors. Some suggestions for color combinations are as follows: Green on white, red on white, black on white, blue on white, white on blue, and white on black.
   
• Illustrations should be simple and eye-catching, with unnecessary detail left out. If possible, convert tables to graphic displays. Pie graphs can be used to show parts of a whole, line graphs can be used to show trends or changing relationships, and bar graphs can be used to show volumes.
   
• Photos should be enlarged enough to show relevant detail.
   
• Patient confidentiality must be protected. No names should appear in illustrations.
   
• Avoid commercial references 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.

All electronic poster presenters should upload their presentation via the meeting website at www.ets-av.com/ismrm/readyroom beginning March 22nd thru April 23, 2010.

**A note to Apple Macintosh users: Mac users should not use "drag-and-drop" to insert pictures and video files into PowerPoint. Most problems, such as the infamous "RED X" are the result of this. Using the INSERT command from the menu will virtually eliminate these issues. The PowerPoint file must have the .ppt or .pptx suffix to be accepted. QUICKTIME MOVIE (.MOV) FILES CANNOT BE USED FOR ELECTRONIC POSTERS.

The speaker ready room will be located in the VIP Room (located on the west end of the main hallway between Victoria Hall and the "K" meeting rooms).

* Please do not e-mail presentations to the above e-mail addresses. All presentations must either be submitted via the website www.ets-av.com/ismrm/readyroom or on show site.