Over 18,000 participants will converge on the Palais des Congrès in Paris, France, during October 21-25, 2011, to attend the leading French-speaking Congress on Medical Imaging. This Congress, the leader in terms of size and wealth of subjects on its program, is organized each year by the French Radiology Society (Société Française de Radiologie).

Radiologists and radiographers, as well as clinicians, biomedical engineers, manufacturers, hospital executives, healthcare policy managers, and media representatives will share the scientific and medical content, as well as issues of healthcare policy and organization, and ethics of key importance to patient management.

JFR (Journées Françaises de Radiologie ) 2011 will provide an essential training and reflection platform for all medical imaging personnel responsible for the creation of good practice recommendations and the structuring of healthcare, will be focusing on doctor-patient relations in keeping with the French government program "2011: the year of patients and patient rights."

The central theme of this 59th meeting will be: Radiologists and patients…[striving for] better communication for better care in screening, diagnosis, and therapy. In a similar manner, patient associations will be present at this major meeting, which constitutes a platform of far-reaching scientific, medical computing, organizational and technologic significance.

The key medical theme will be imaging and women: following cardiothoracic imaging in 2010, breast and pelvic imaging will this year form the core category and syllabus.

From screening to treatment, via diagnostics, general and expert radiologists will provide cross-sectional illumination of this theme. From clinical research to work on the development of cellular imaging through nanotechnologies, medical imaging research will form a central thread running through the entire congress.

With an increasingly international outlook, already the norm with the participation each year of more than 2,600 international radiologists, the congress will culminate in an International Day on October 23, 2011, bringing together English-speaking radiologists attending the JFR to reflect on the theme of "Good Practice."

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