Your file must be submitted by 12 April 2012 @ 23:59 EDT

This is a hard deadline. There will be no extensions!

All submissions must be in Microsoft PowerPoint format.

In order to have your presentation available on the Internet during the conference, the final version of your electronic poster must be uploaded by 23:59 (Eastern Daylight Time) on April 12, 2012. No on-line submissions will be accepted after April 12, 2012. The Speaker Ready Room is Room 111-112. Presentations that are submitted on-site in the speaker ready room will not be available on the Internet during the conference. They can only be viewed in the electronic poster area. Any changes made during the conference will only be reflected in the electronic poster area and may take up to 24 hours to update in poster area. After the conference, all new submissions and modified presentations will be available on-line. Please review your submission thoroughly before submission. There are no computer speakers, so please do not include audio.

All computers in the poster area are exactly the same and come standard with:
• Windows 7 Professional
• Microsoft PowerPoint (Office 2010)

The recommended video formats are:
• MPEG4-AVC using H.264/AAC (.mp4)
• Windows Media Video (.wmv)

Other acceptable video formats:
• AVI (.avi) – a limited number of CODECs are supported.
• MOV (.mov) – QuickTime movies are the least compatible and are discouraged

A note to Apple Macintosh users:
The PowerPoint file must have the .ppt or .pptx suffix to be accepted.
 

New This Year: Electronic posters should be much more visible and accessible this year, given the use of E-pods with browsing computers (see this link).  We expect having E-poster monitors clumped together by theme, along with browser monitors, to bring much more traffic to E-poster presentations. To make this work for you, pay special attention to your title slide.  Each E-pod's browser monitors will play a continuous loop showing the title slides from all 24 monitors for a given hour in that pod.  The first slide of your presentation will be that slide, and will be shown for approximately 8-10 seconds.  Please do the following:

1) Put your monitor number in the bottom right-hand corner of the slide.  This will let people who are browsing know where to find your monitor.

2) Put your title on the top center of your slide.

3) Make this first slide interesting, but not too busy - the intent is to draw people from the browsing computer to your monitor, where you will be.  An simple and attractive image or figure that shows why your work is so special will help.  Complicated figures, or very busy movies, may be too intensive to appreciate in the 8-10 seconds each title slide will have on the browser monitor.  So don't try to explain everything here - just, perhaps, an interesting example of your result.

4) It is vitally important that you get your E-poster slides submitted on time, to allow the ISMRM staff to create the browser movies ahead of time.

Contact Information:

For web submission issues or speaker ready room questions, please contact:
Kevin Gorman
Event Technology Services
972-756-0100
ismrm@ets-av.com

* Please do not e-mail presentations to the above e-mail address. All presentations must be submitted via the website www.ets-av.com/ismrm/readyroom. 

In order to have your presentation available on the Internet during the conference, the final version of your electronic poster must be uploaded by 23:59 (Eastern Daylight Time) on 12 April 2012.
No on-line submissions will be accepted after 12 April 2012.

• 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.

• 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.
   

Speaker Ready Room

The speaker ready room will be located in the Room 111-112 of the Melbourne Convention Center.

ELECTRONIC POSTER PRESENTERS MUST SUBMIT THEIR PRESENTATION VIA THE WEBSITE BY 12 APRIL TO ENSURE AVAILABILITY FOR VIEWING IN MELBOURNE!