Check-in and Participant Registration

Opening welcome (Owen Arthurs, UK; Michael Aertsen, Belgium)

What is the purpose of perinatal post mortem investigation? (Neil Sebire, UK)

Where does post mortem imaging fit in ? (Owen Arthurs, UK)

What does a pathologist want to know from imaging? (Wim Develter, Belgium)

What does a fetal medicine specialist want to know from imaging? (Xin Kang, Belgium)

Lunch

Consent for PM investigations - what are the options for parents? (Robin van der Lee, Netherlands)

Post mortem MRI - how I do it, sequences, pathology (Elspeth Whitby, UK)

Post mortem CT - How I do it. Protocol and pathology (Willemijn Klein, Netherlands)

Break

Post mortem Ultrasound - how I do it. Protocols, probes & pathology (Susan Shelmerdine, UK)

Post mortem Micro CT: imaging smaller fetuses, how it works (Ciaran Hutchinson, UK)

Summary of Day 1: who decides, who refers, value (Willemijn Klein, Netherlands)

Boven de wolken (Tessa Fransen)

End of Day 1 drinks reception

Workshop dinner - please sign up at registration - Restaurant "De Klimop", Leuven

Recap of day 1 - indications, patients groups, referrals and what information is needed from imaging (Owen Arthurs, UK)

Post mortem imaging: template reporting (Susan Shelmerdine, UK)

How to prepare cases for fetal MRI / micro CT (Michael Aertsen, Belgium)

Break

Interactive case review - case based Osirix workshop, split into 3 parallel groups. All participants will experience all 3 workshops in turn. 

Interactive MRI workshop - normal findings, interesting cases, maceration changes, congenital / acquired pathology (PMMR workshop led by Xin Kang, Belgium)

Interactive CT workshop - normal findings, interesting cases, forensic changes, congenital / acquired pathology (PMCT workshop led by Willemijn Klein, Netherlands)

Interactive Ultrasound workshop - normal findings, interesting cases, maceration changes, congenital / acquired pathology (PMUS workshop led by Susan Shelmerdine, UK)

Lunch

Tissue sampling in PM imaging - minimally invasive autopsy (Ciaran Hutchinson, UK)

Future of PM imaging, how to set up a service (Owen Arthurs, UK)

Discussion and course feedback (Michael Aertsen, Belgium)

Close of meeting - safe journey home!