On behalf of the ASMIRT/NZIMRT 2025 Conference Organising Committee, we invite all members of the medical radiation science (MRS) professions to submit abstracts for oral presentations, poster exhibits and workshops for next year’s conference, which will be held in Adelaide from 27 to 30 March.

This conference will be combined with the New Zealand Institute of Medical Radiation Technology (NZIMRT) providing exceptional opportunities for international networking, knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Comprising an engaging program, this conference will include a mixture of invited speakers, proffered papers, vibrant physical posters and specialised workshops.

We, the organising committee, look forward to receiving your abstract submission and to building a wonderful scientific program for the ASMIRT/NZIMRT 2025 Conference.

ASMIRT/NZIMRT 2025 is calling for workshop submissions.  A full day of workshops will be held on Thursday 27 March 2025 at the Adelaide Convention Centre. Interactive workshops run anywhere from 1.5 hours to a half or full day.

If you are interested in facilitating a workshop, please complete the ASMIRT/NZIMRT 2025 Workshop Proposal form and return to conferences@asmirt.org.

Workshop submissions close 9 September 2024.

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Scientific / non-scientific abstracts

When submitting your abstract, you will be asked to indicate whether it is a scientific (original research) or non-scientific abstract (case study, literature review, clinical audit etc). Please read below so you are clear about each of these types.
For Scientific Abstracts: The abstract must be structured under the following headings: Objectives, Methods, Results, Discussion/Conclusion and References.

For Non-Scientific Abstracts: The abstract should describe a situation, a problem or a practice with adequate reasoning and evidence to support a point of view. For commentary, it is not necessary to provide headings. Case studies must be structured under the following headings: Introduction, Case Presentation, Management and Outcome, and Discussion.

General

• You grant ASMIRT/NZIMRT non-exclusive rights to publish, reproduce, distribute and store the abstract.
• Research, audit or quality improvement (QI) projects involving humans and animals must comply with ethical standards both nationally, Australian Code for Responsible Conduct of Research (2018), and internationally, such as the Declaration of Helsinki. Authors must also comply with research and QI ethics guidelines from their local human research ethics office.
• Patients reported in case studies must be de-identified. Authors must also comply with the hospital’s policy of obtaining permission from the patient or their carer.
• If the author(s) have any commercial interests or associations that might pose a conflict of interest regarding this submission, they must be declared at the end of your abstract submission.
• If accepted for presentation, the commercial interest or association must be declared on the title slide or the slide immediately following the title slide.
• The author is responsible for the accuracy of the abstract.
• Authors may submit more than one abstract.
  
  

Review and Selection

Abstracts will be blind reviewed by a panel of experts selected by the Scientific Program Committee. Selection will be based on the abstract review scoring criteria from the relevant scoring rubric. The decisions of the review process are final and cannot be disputed.

Speaker Registration

A condition of abstract acceptance is that at least one of the presenting authors must register to attend the conference in person as a delegate and pay the appropriate registration fee by Thursday 12 December 2024. This is to allow for time for the program to be available for early bird registration, and publication of the conference abstracts through Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences (JMRS) online. Should one of the presenting authors not register by this time, the presentation may be removed from the program. A co-presenter is permitted on the basis that they have registered for the day of their presentation.

Publication Policy

All abstracts accepted for presentation (Oral or Poster) will be published through a JMRS abstract supplement, and available through the Conference online system.

Recording of Presentations

All presenters agree to have their presentation recorded and applicable resources available through the ASMIRT/NZIMRT online systems. This agreement is non-exclusive and royalty-free. Presenters/authors agree that the content is theirs to share and that ASMIRT/NZIMRT are not responsible for the content of the material presented.
Any authors / presenters who are unable to commit to this need to email conferences@asmirt.org with the reason for this, and request consideration for an exemption. Any exemptions granted will be confirmed in writing.

Privacy

By submitting an abstract presenters give permission for their name, bio and image (if uploaded) to be available through the Conference App / online system, and in delegate or sponsor lists.

Plagiarism
ASMIRT regards plagiarism as serious professional misconduct. If plagiarism is identified, the abstract and any other abstracts submitted by the same author will be rejected.