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EAR99 is a classification for an item. It indicates that a particular item is subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), but not listed with a specific Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) on the Commerce Control List (CCL). While the classification describes the item, the authorization for shipment of that item may change, depending on the transaction. NLR is the designator of a transaction that stands for the "No License Required" authorization. NLR may be used for either EAR99 items, or items on the CCL that do not require a license for the destination in question, provided no General Prohibitions apply. (Part 736 of the EAR)
The United States International Trade Commission allows you to search the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Annotated (HTSUSA) for import commodity codes.
Because import and export commodity codes match at the six-digit level, you may also use our Schedule B Search to find the first six digits of your import number.
Once you have obtained the six-digit subheading, you can look up the full, ten-digit import code in the HTSUSA.
For help with import classification, you must contact your local Customs office.
The person in the United States (U.S.) that receives the primary benefit monetary or otherwise of the export transaction. Generally that person can be the:
The Internal Transaction Number (ITN) is a unique transaction reference number that AES provides to indicate that it has accepted your electronic export information . If you not receive your ITN, please verify that you transmitted the shipment information to AES and there is no pending fatal error(s). If you have a fatal error, this must be corrected before an ITN will be issued.
The ITN can be used as your AES Proof of Filing Citation on your commercial documents. The proof of filing citation must include the statement ''AES,'' followed by the returned confirmation number or ITN provided by AES (e.g., AES X20060914000001).
The Foreign Trade Division provides a broad range of comprehensive foreign trade statistics that are available on a monthly, annual and historical basis. This includes information on over 17,000 import products, 9,000 export products, 240 trading partners, 50 states and territories, 45 districts and 400 ports.
You can find a complete list of the products we provide on the Foreign Trade products page.
Here are three options:
For help with import classification, you must contact your local customs office. For exports, follow the steps below:
For example, entering the keyword "software" pulls up 852431 through 852499, and clicking on the numbers brings you into Chapter 85 at heading 8524, where you can read through the descriptions under the suggested subheadings to find the right Schedule B number.
Please note that the Schedule B manual includes explanatory information such as Section Notes, Statistical Notes and Chapter Notes that should be examined to confirm the proper classification of your product.
This is an electronic version of what you might otherwise get on paper. You can print the file from your browser by selecting PRINT from the toolbar or from the FILE menu. You could also save the file to your hard drive and print it from your word processor.
If the columns do not line up, reformat the file and print again.
To correct the alignment, try the following steps:
Note that the above instructions will vary between computer platforms and applications. However, reformatting should not be too difficult to accomplish.
The Summarized AES Filing Process is as follows:
In order to get trade information, you need to be able to correctly classify your product. There are many ways to classify goods that are imported and exported. In each of these systems, the products have specific commodity numbers that indicate various levels of detail.
All U.S. trade data is based on the Harmonized Tariff System (HTS), a series of 10-digit codes. These HTS codes fall under one of two categories: durable goods and non-durable goods. Browse our list of Schedule B export codes or call our Commodity Analysis Branch to find your product codes.
Once you have the commodity codes, contact our Data Dissemination Branch to order a customized report.
NOTE on Internet availability: There is limited availability of trade data from our web site. It is available free of charge via more general classification codes (SITC and NAICS). The most detailed data is available through our Data Dissemination Branch and our online service, USATrade Online, for a fee.
If you forgot to file the Electronic Export Information (EEI) in AES, then file the SED as soon as you become aware of the oversight. Expect to receive a compliance alert for the late filing. Ensure that future shipments are filed successfully before the cargo is passed to the carrier.
If you have numerous missing Electronic Export Information (EEI) records for an extended period of time, voluntarily disclose this information to the Census Bureau. Contact AES Support at 800-549-0595 then, select menu option 1 for further assistance.
Freight forwarders are responsible for:
To get started in AES or AESDirect you can do one of the following:
When exporting commodities out of the United States (or releasing technology or source code to a foreign national in the United States), you need to classify the item to determine if an export license is required from any U.S. Government agency. If an item is on the Commerce Control List, you need to know the ECCN to determine whether an export license is required.
Questions can be found at the Answer Center and also at the Schedule B frequently asked questions web site.
They are responsible for the following:
ECCN stands for Export Control Classification Number. An ECCN is an alphanumeric classification used in the Commerce Control List (CCL) to identify items for export control purposes.
More information is available on the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) web site at www.bis.doc.gov./licensing/Do I NeedAn ECCN You can also reach them via telephone at (202) 482-4811.
Recommendations for revisions to existing classifications or for the establishment of new classifications should be addressed to the Chairman of the Committee for Statistical Annotation of Tariff Schedules and emailed to email@example.com, or mailed to:
The ChairmanCommittee for Statistical Annotation of Tariff SchedulesUnited States International Trade CommissionWashington, D.C. 20436
The ChairmanCommittee for Statistical Annotation of Tariff SchedulesUnited States International Trade CommissionWashington, D.C. 20436
Requests should indicate precisely the nature of each desired change and give detailed reasons in support of the requests. In addition, the requestor should provide the names of importers and foreign manufacturers and indicate the countries from which the commodities are being imported. Such requests should be submitted no later than April 1, for changes to be effective July 1, and August 1, for changes to be effective January 1.
Submissions are logged in as 484(f) cases and reviewed by representatives from the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), U.S. Census Bureau, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
No. All data that are collected by the Census Bureau are considered private and confidential. U.S. Code Title 13 makes it illegal for us to release data from companies or individuals doing the trading as opposed to the individual commodities that are traded.
This confidentiality also adds to the integrity of the trade data. Data from the decennial census (the census that happens every ten years) is also covered by Title 13. If your neighbors could go to the government and look up your annual income from the last census (which, by the way, they can't), would you be entirely honest about your income during the next census? Similarly, if you knew that your competition could go to the government and find out exactly what you're trading (and with whom you're trading it), wouldn't you try to be vague enough to make their job more difficult while still obeying trade laws?
For more information on U.S. trade regulations, contact our Regulations, Outreach and Education Branch (ROEB) on (301) 763-2238.
You must enter the correct ECCN on the EEI record for licensed and license exception shipments, and for "no license required" (NLR) shipments of items on the Commerce Control List having a reason for control other than anti-terrorism (AT). The only exception to this requirement is the return of unwanted foreign origin items, meeting the provisions of License Exception TMP, under §740.9(b)(3) of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). See § 15 CFR 758.1(g) (as amended July 10, 2000).
AESPclink is free software based on AESDirect. AESDirect is a service provided by the U. S. Census Bureau to facilitate the electronic filing of SED (Shipper's Export Declaration) information. With AESPcLink you can complete your declarations offline and later upload them to AESDirect.
Step 2: Determine which AESPcLink application to use (AESPcLink Standard Edition or AESPcLink Network Edition).
This question is currently being updated to reflect the Mandatory AES regulations. Until the update is posted, please contact our Automated Export System Branch via telephone at 800-549-0595 (Menu option 1) or via e-mail at email@example.com .
The formats for the AES Proof of Filing Citations are as follows.
For more information or other examples please refer to FTSR Letter No. 168 (Amendment 2).
AES will send one of the following messages in response to your filing:
After you submit your EEI, you will receive one of two responses from AES that indicates the status of your EEI.
You will not be considered to have filed your EEI until you have received the ITN. If you did not receive any of the messages in 1) or 2) above, and could not retrieve the ITN using the Shipment Reporting Center, then please contact 800-549-0595 then press 1 to speak to an AES Client Representative for assistance.
You cannot think only of "restricted countries" because some of our export controls apply worldwide. Where you may or may not ship your goods varies with each transaction and depends on the nature of the goods, the identity of the proposed recipient of the goods, and the activity or activities in which the recipient is involved. You must determine that information before you can decide whether you need an export license.
In some situations, the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) requires an export license for shipments to any country in the world (even Canada, in rare circumstances). Part 746 of the EAR lists countries that are subject to embargoes or other special controls.
For more information on the restricted countries, contact the Office of Foreign Asset and Controls at (202) 622-2490.
The Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) is issued by the Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) for shipments that require an export license. For questions about ECCNs and license codes, contact the BXA at (202) 482-4811or (202) 482-2642.
The Department of Commerce Trade Information Center can assist you with obtaining this information. The Center can be reached on 1-800-USA-Trade (872-8723).
You will need to reactivate your AESDirect account if you previously requested the account be deactivated or if it was disabled by the system due to inactivity. Accounts will be disabled when the user does not log in for 6 months.
This request must be on company letterhead and be signed by the current administrator or company officer (President, CEO, Export Manager, Compliance officer, etc.). Fax the request to AESDirect at (301) 562-7795.Include the following information:
Note: You do not need to change the administrator to reactivate the account. However, the administrator information is needed even if is going to remain the same.
An AESDirect representative will contact the client once the fax is received and provide an activation code to be entered into the field on the "Reactivate Account".
The activation code will remain valid for 5 days. If an activation code is not used within five (5) days, a new request to re-activate the account must be faxed. If you type an activation code incorrectly 10 times, it will be disabled.
In order to increase the quality of trade data, the United States and Canada agreed to exchange trade data. Because import data has more scrutiny paid to it, each country uses the other's import data as their export data. U.S. reported exports to Canada are actually based on Canadian data on imports from the United States. Canadian reported exports to the United States are actually based on U.S data on imports from Canada.
The paper "U.S. - Canada Data Exchange 1990 - 2001" reads:
In July 1987, Canada and the United States embarked upon a grand experiment by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to exchange import statistics starting with January 1990 data. From this date, the two statistical agencies would no longer base their bilateral export statistics on export declarations. Instead, they would rely on the import statistics of the counterpart country. Statistics Canada relies on American imports from Canada as compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau as the source of its export data. Likewise, the U.S. Census Bureau derives its exports to Canada from data on imports from the United States compiled by Statistics Canada. Because of the greater scrutiny paid to imports by the customs agencies in both countries, this exchange provides a more reliable measure of the bilateral trade. In addition, the reporting burden on exporters and forwarders in both countries was significantly reduced, as export declarations are no longer required for trade between the two partners. It was one of the first agreements between trading nations relating strictly to trade statistics.
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Follow these steps to browse the Schedule B:
Call the Commodity Analysis Branch at 800-549-0595 and press 2 from the main menu.
Send email inquiries to Mr. Paul Herrick at firstname.lastname@example.com
For help with import classification, you must contact your local customs office.
In addition to questions at the Answer Center , there is a web site for Trade Information Center that has been prepared by the Foreign Trade Division of the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Automated Export System (AES) is an electronic method to submit export documentation.
The cost will vary depending on the size and business needs of your organization. There are several options available to you, including cost free filing over the Internet using AESDirect or other relatively inexpensive filing options using the Internet. As an AES participant, you may develop your own software from the specifications we provide. You may contract with a vendor that has developed and tested software with AES. You may file using a Value Added Network (VAN) or an electronic mailbox. Other options include using the facilities of a service center, port authority or a freight forwarder acting as your agent. The cost will be proportionate to the sophistication of the system you choose. You may chose to file for free using AESDirect (http://www.aesdirect.gov).
The CD-ROM, U.S. Exports Commodity Classification: 2006 can be ordered through the Census Bureau Catalog. The product ID is C1-F06-SCHB-12-US1. This will be the last CD-ROM to be released; however, try our online version (below).
The print version, Schedule B: Statistical Classification of Domestic and Foreign Commodities Exported From the United States, 2002 Edition, can be purchased from the Government Printing Office (GPO) Bookstore. The stock number of the publication is 903-009-00000-4. This item includes the full publication that was printed in 2002, as well as every Public Bulletin, or annual update, through the length of the subscription.
The online version of the Schedule B is always available free of charge at http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/schedules/b/.
You can download the AESDirect User Guide from the Internet.
What is the course overview?
On the first day of the Automatic Export System (AES) Compliance Conference, you are given information regarding updates to legislation affecting foreign trade statistics regulations and your responsibilities under the laws. Key government officials teach about the new export regulations and the mandatory electronic filing for exporters.
The next day, plan to attend one of the AES Compliance Conference Workshops to learn how to successfully report your Electronic Export Information using the Internet.
What general information do you have about location, cost, course objectives, registration form, etc.?
The price for the Seminar is $199 and the workshops are $60 each. Additionally, check out our training web site and agenda.
Do I have to attend both the seminar and the workshop?
No, you may attend one event or both events. In addition, you do not need to attend both workshops since the content is the same for both.
Are you still accepting registrations?
Yes, for most of the classes. Check for details.
May I reserve a space?
No, we process these in the order in which the order is received and approved. If there is a problem with the order (incomplete or incorrect), which will delay the processing of your order and it may decrease the likelihood of your order being accepted.
What is your refund policy?
Requests to cancel registration in Census Bureau Training courses will be honored in the following manner:
What is your course cancellation policy?
The Census Bureau reserves the right to cancel any course 30 days prior to the scheduled event if registrations do not meet the stated minimums.
What does the registration fee include?
Whom should I contact about the course?
To register:
To find out about future courses, return to the Question and Answer Center and enroll to be notified of announcements for new courses.
How soon can I find out if my registration has been confirmed?
We process these forms each morning (Mon-Fri). You should receive an email confirmation that includes the order number, such as 1-1234567. If you do not receive the confirmation or a fax by 10:00 EST, please call (301) 763-2238 and select option 3.
Contact the International Trade Administration (ITA), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, at (202) 482-3809.
We publish different types of data on NAFTA.
Specifically, our Foreign Trade Division publishes NAFTA data on the trade in goods with Mexico (imports, exports and trade balance).
For more specific NAFTA data, contact our Foreign Trade Division at 301-763-2311.
To reset your AESDirect password or administrator code, fax a request on company letterhead to AESDirect at (301) 562-7795. The Account Administrator for your AESDirect account must sign this request. Please include the following information:
Once we have received your fax, AESDirect customer support will contact your Account Administrator at the phone number or email address on record to confirm and complete your request. If the Account Administrator has left the company, please follow the procedure to change the Account Administrator as listed online in the AESDirect Support Center.
You can find the Commerce Control List (CCL) online.
The Alphabetical Index to the Commerce Control List (Part 774) is available from the Government Printing Office website at www.gpo.gov/bis/ear/ear_data.html.
To inquire whether your items are covered under the CCL, call the Bureau of Industry and Security at (202) 482-4811
You can receive training using a variety of methods:
If your AESDirect username and/or password do not work, make sure you are entering your username and password correctly. The username is always lower case letters. The password is case sensitive.
If you continue to have problems, please contact your Account Administrator to ensure you have the correct information. You can also have the Account Administrator contact AESDirect Technical support via telephone at (877) 715-4433.
The procedure to import an ASCII delimited file varies from application to application. To determine the exact procedure for your application, search your Help section on "import" and "delimited."
Many applications will follow the below procedure:
Your file should now be visible in the spreadsheet. Consult your application's Help section for more specifics on your situation.
To change your AESDirect account administrator, please fax a request on your company's letterhead to AESDirect to (301) 562-7795.
The administrator currently on file with AESDirect or a company officer must sign the request.
Please include the following information:
This information should be faxed to (301) 562-7795. Once we have received your fax, an AESDirect representative will contact you to confirm and complete your request.
The default email address is the Account Administrator's registered email address.
In AESDirect - You must change the Account Administrator's registered email address to permanently change the default email address. Also, you can change the email address for an individual shipment by editing the email address in the Shipment Information section.
In AESPcLink - You can change the default email address for your software by going to the Tools Section and click on AESPcLink Accounts "Change Default Email Address" and update the information. You can also change the email address for a particular shipment by editing the email address in the Shipment Information Section.
To Add an Email Address:
If you wish to send a copy of the AES response to your consignee, simply add his e-mail address in the e-mail data field, e.g. email@example.com, email@example.com.
Many common software products have encryption capability which subjects them to special export controls.Internet software, office software, and many financial software products, among others, have encryption capability. Contact the manufacturer of the software product to find out if it has encryption capability. You can also contact the Information Technology Controls Division within the Bureau of Export Administration at 202-482-0707.
Information on the "trade balance" is published in the FT-900 report (also known as the "U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services" report). It contains trade information based on month, product and country. Here are two sources:
The requirements under the new FTR are effective July 2, 2008, 30 days after the publication date. The effective date means all provisions in the FTR should be observed. However, the Census Bureau is providing an additional 90 days, until September 30, 2008, to allow the trade community to come into compliance with the requirements. Until September 30, 2008 informed compliance is in effect. Starting October 1, 2008, enforced compliance takes effect and fines and penalties for violations of the FTR may be imposed.
In our experience, the FTD DropBox works with most major browsers. We have tried it with most versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and Firefox. It should work well with most other browsers.
Which browser you use depends on your preferences.
All the conditions for the blue fields are explained in the Help Screen.
To Access the Help Screen:
Yes, 508 Acquisition frequently asked questions can be found at our web site.
If your company is no longer exporting or is out of business, you will need to disable your AESDirect account.
To disable your AESDirect account, please fax a request on your company's letterhead to AESDirect at (301) 562-7795.
The administrator on the account or an officer of the company must sign the request.
Once AESDirect receives your fax, a representative will contact you to confirm and complete your request.
The comma delimited file is designed to be imported into a database or a spreadsheet. Quotes (") are placed around any values meant to be text. Values without quotes are assumed to be numbers. The commas tell the program where to split the columns (in spreadsheets) or variables (in databases). The first row of text is usually the names of the columns or variables.
You can import these files into spreadsheets and databases. Consult your favorite application on how to import the file correctly, but most applications will guide you with an "Import Wizard" when you "Import" or "Open" the file. When prompted, only identify the comma (,) as the delimiter.
The Automated Export System (AES) accepts transmissions in several Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) formats over secure dedicated telephone lines (via 800 numbers). The service centers that accept Internet transmissions pass your transmissions through to Customs in an appropriate EDI format, and each provider addresses these concerns individually. U.S. Customs does not plan to accept Internet submissions on an open basis at this time.
Yes. AESPcLink is a software version of the AESDirect website that allows you to complete your Shipper's Export Information (SED) offline and then transmit via the Internet. Once you have registered and activated your company account for AESDirect, your company is also registered for AESPcLink or any other application developed to work with AESDirect.
The statement "Too Many Unsuccessful Attempts" means that there has been three or more incorrect file names entered during that session. To correct this:
Concerning the page break, the REPORT FORMAT FILE in the FTD Drop Box is plain text files with page breaks at the top of each page. Web browers do not recognize those breaks when you print. To correct this, save the file to your hard drive and open it in a word processor. If the page appears as it was in your web browser, print it. Otherwise, reformat the file.
Report FormatThis is an electronic version of what you might otherwise get on paper. You can print the file from your browser by selecting "Print" from the toolbar or from the "File" menu. You could also save the file to your hard drive and print it from your word processor.
If the columns do not line up, reformat the file and print again.


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Volume 35, Issue 6, June 2008
- Imaging: Continuing Education Course: Room 352
- CE‐Imaging: Medical Informatics I
WE‐B‐352‐01: Current DICOM Topics: 3D Objects and Compression35(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2962682View Description Hide Description
The development of the DICOM Standard is accomplished through Working Groups of the DICOM Standards Committee. The Working Groups perform the majority of work on the extension of and corrections to the DICOM Standard. The ACR Committee on DICOM Standards, under the Commission on Medical Physics, has been established to provide a summary of the current activities and future directions of the DICOM Standards Committee. In this presentation two recently active areas are reviewed with an emphasis on how the emerging new standards impact diagnostic radiology.
1. The new Surface Segmentation Storage SOP Class Supplements.This Supplement, developed by a joint effort of Working Group 17 (3D) and Working Group 24 (Surgery), addresses the generic structure of 3D segmentation results. The standard provides a method to store segmented surface information in a manner that permits rendering of shaded models using common computer graphic approaches. Industry support for the SOP class will change the manner is which analyzed cross sectional data is stored for review by radiologists, oncologists, surgeons, etc. In addition the enhancement of the Presentation State for these new 3D objects is being initiated by working Group 11 (Display Function Standard) and Working Group 24 (Surgery) has initiated work on a Supplement to improve surgical plans for implants using these new 3D objects.
2. Compression: JPEG 2000 and MPEG2 Transfer syntaxes. JPEG 2000 compression was added as transfer syntax by Working Group 4 (Compression) in 2001 but has had only modest impact on image quality relative to the previous baseline JPEG methods. Of more significance is the extension in 2004 to JPEG 2000 part 2 multi‐component transfer syntaxes which apply to multi‐spectral and 3D image data. The extension of the standard to permit the pixel data module to reference a JPIP URL to access image data from a web server (supplement 1006, 2004) is particularly notable in light of the increasing use of web clients in enterprise PACS systems. Working Group 13 (Visible Light) introduced a transfer syntax in 2004 for MPEG2 (Supplement 42) to send visible light objects in standard resolution similar to video DVD. This is now being extended to support high spatial resolution objects similar to Blu‐ray DVD.
Educational Objectives:
1. Understand from two examples how the DICOM standard is continuously extended to address new requirements.
2. Learn how a new SOP storage class might impact the storage and display of analyzedimage data.
3. Learn how new DICOM transfer syntaxes on compression impact diagnostic radiology.
- CE‐Imaging: Medical Informatics II
TH‐B‐352‐01: Current IHE Topics: Mammography Display and CD Export35(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2962825View Description Hide Description
As a collaboration of professional societies and companies, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE, www.ihe.net) seeks to establish methods wherein health computer systems can communicate to achieve specific functional objectives. IHE profiles define the detailed requirements that systems must meet in order to achieve the objective. These requirements often involve DICOM and HL7 standards. Periodic industry test sessions (called Connectathons) are used to demonstrate the conformance of specific products. Health domains include Radiology and Radiation Oncology. AAPM along with RSNA, SNM, and SIIM are member organizations and about 100 companies also participate. We focus this year on two recent IHE efforts which impact diagnostic radiology.
1.)Radiology: MammographyImage (MAMMO) Integration Profile. In the Radiology Technical Framework, the MAMMO profile specifies how DICOM full field mammographyimages are created, exchanged, and used.
The detailed specifications are supplemented in the IHE Radiology: Mammography User's Handbook. This profile provides important requirements for department implementing a mammography PACS system with workstation interpretation. Of particular importance are display specifications regarding presentation size, CAD overlays, and presentation states.
2.)Radiology: Portable Data for Imaging (PDI) Integration Profile. This profile specifies methods that allow patients and referring physicians to obtain and view diagnosticimages and reports. It is not intended to provide archival solutions. Use in operating rooms is specifically delineated. The use of CD media is specified along with both web based viewing support and DICOM standard CD records that can be imported and/or viewed by DICOM devices. The profile has taken on recent importance due to chronic problems in surgical specialties resulting from the prevalent use of proprietary formats on exported CDs. A problem now considered by the AMA to be a patient safety issue.
Educational Objectives:
1. Understand from two examples how the IHE profiles impact diagnostic radiology PACS.
2. Learn how recent mammography profiles can be used when specifying systems for digital mammography reading.
3. Understand how to avoid problems when exchanging image data between institutions.
- CE‐Imaging: Multimodality and Multidimensional Imaging I
MO‐B‐352‐01: The Clinical Perspective — Multimodality and Multidimensional Imaging35(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2962335View Description Hide Description
Modalities like optical, CT, MR, PET/SPECT and US are used separately, but can be combined. Multimodality imaging is necessary when the results of two (or more) modalities differ, and each does something useful but not everything that's required. We will consider several practical examples: residual or recurrent tumor after treatment, eloquent cortex in the brain when a lesion is nearby, drug effect in situ — especially for cytostatic agents, control of thermal ablation, vulnerable plaque, evaluation of gene therapy, and assessment of revascularization benefits depending on tissue viability. All of these scenarios can be detected in one modality, where another provides a morphologic reference useful for guiding therapy.
Not only are imaging modalities synergistic, but their performance can be altered and utility extended using exogenous agents, such as contrast media, radiopharmaceuticals, and other targeted compounds with desirable in vivo biological and physical characteristics. Optimizing the combination of modalities, agents, data acquisition, image reconstruction, visualization and analysis can be challenging, but may provide unique capabilities that no single technique could offer.
We will evaluate the state‐of‐the‐art for combining modalities in animals and show how this could translate to clinical practice, recognizing the impediments of cost, complexity, reliability, crosstalk, and safety/regulatory restrictions. The need and potential for multimodality techniques and systems already far exceeds what's currently available, so we can identify some unsolved problems where the benefits are not yet available.
Educational Objectives
1. To understand the synergy between modalities (optical, CT, MR, PET/SPECT, US), contrast agents or tracer compounds, and post‐processing image analysis that provides multimodality and multidimensional capability.
2. To provide examples of how multimodality/multidimensional imaging can solve clinical problems in diseases of the brain, cardiovascular system, cancer, and for regenerative medicine.
3. To identify several unsolved problems where multimodality/multidimensional imaging may provide clinically useful solutions.
MO‐B‐352‐02: Multi‐Modality Imaging: Physics and Technology Considerations in Diagnostic and Image‐Guided Procedures35(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2962336View Description Hide Description
Medical imaging technologies that combine the capabilities of two or more imaging modalities are becoming increasingly important in the diagnosis, staging, treatment, and monitoring of disease. In particular, the combination of morphological imaging modalities (e.g., x‐ray, CT,ultrasound, and MR) with functional or molecular imaging modalities (e.g., optical, PET, SPECT, and functional MR) offers synergistic advances. This session provides an overview of technical and physical aspects of such developments, reviews the most prevalent technologies under consideration, addresses the challenges and limitations of such technologies, and discusses the opportunities for future research in multi‐modality imaging. Example multi‐modality approaches include x‐ray / ultrasound,CT / PET, MR / PET, and Optical / CT. Applications include pre‐clinical imaging,diagnosis and staging, image guidance, and treatment response monitoring.
Educational Objectives:
1. An understanding of the technical and physical factors of multi‐modality image quality, registration, and accuracy.
2. An understanding of the challenges and potential opportunities associated with various multi‐modality imaging technologies.
3. An understanding of the various clinical applications enabled by such technologies.
- CE‐Imaging: Multimodality and Multidimensional Imaging II
TU‐B‐352‐01: Quantification of 3‐D PET/CT Imaging35(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2962427View Description Hide Description
In oncology,imaging studies play an increasingly important role in assessing patients' response to treatment. Serial CT scans of a patient are evaluated for changes in the number and size of tumors, while serial PET scans are assessed for changes in the metabolic activity of the lesions. The advent of combined CT and PET systems streamlines the fusion of these anatomic and functional images. However there are many confounding effects that complicate quantification in 3D PET/CT imaging.
This lecture will review these sources of variability in the data, grouped into three broad categories: patient‐related factors (e.g. dose uptake time before imaging, blood glucose level, body habitus); instrument‐related factors (spatial and energy resolution, sensitivity, data acquisition mode (2D or 3D), attenuation and scatter correction method, image reconstruction algorithm, respiratory and cardiac motion‐correction method); and operator‐related factors such as acquisition and reconstruction protocols, instrument and imagequality control, instrument calibrations, and method of image analysis. The impact of these variables on quantification will be discussed, with particular emphasis on how to minimize those that are controllable.
The presentation will conclude with a review of current efforts by government agencies, professional organizations, academic institutions, and sponsors of multicenter trials to grapple with the additional complexities that arise from combining data from multiple patients at multiple sites. Research partially supported by the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN).
Educational Objectives:
1. Understand the scope of the problems inherent in using PET/CT imaging to detect changes in patient response to treatment.
2. Understand the factors that affect the variability and accuracy of PET/CT quantification.
3. Understand the importance of minimizing variability in order to enhance the ability to identify non‐responders to treatment over ever‐shorter time intervals.
4. Understand the efforts currently underway to standardize acquisition and processing protocols and to monitor equipment performance through credentialing and periodic quality control checks.
TU‐B‐352‐02: Assessing Tumor Response to Therapy Over Time35(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2962428View Description Hide Description
Monitoring the efficacy of braintumor therapy is a clinical dilemma. Results of biopsy provide the most reliable indicator but biopsy is too invasive for frequent use. The clinical standard of practice is to perform serial magnetic resonance scans and to assess changes to tumor "size" as seen on gadolinium enhanced images, with "size" measured in one, two, or three dimensions. This review discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the three measurement methods as well as some of the effects of voxel size on the calculation. Problems inherent to the use of gadolinium enhanced images include the effect of steroids and the confounding appearance of radiation necrosis. New treatment methods, such as administration of anti‐VEGF agents, may even cause disappearance of gadolinium enhancement while the tumor continues to grow. The limitations of the "tumor size" approach have led multiple groups to explore alternative methods of assessing tumor activity. We briefly explore some of these alternative methods to assessing tumor growth and treatment response.
Educational Objectives:
1. Understand the clinical standard of practice of monitoring braintumor therapy from T1 gadolinium enhanced images.
2. Understand the different common approaches to assessing tumor activity and their strengths/limitations.
3. Understand the limitations inherent to various approaches.
- CE‐Imaging: The Physics and Technology of Radiography and Fluoroscopy I
MO‐A‐352‐01: Fluoroscopic Imaging Equipment35(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2962328View Description Hide Description
Modern fluoroscopyimaging equipment is designed to simultaneously monitor x‐ray beam attenuation, detector exposure rate, contrast‐to‐noise ratio, x‐ray generator parameters, and x‐ray tube loading. Knowledge of system design is essential to understanding equipment operation; and understanding equipment operation can facilitate optimization of performance. Under pre‐programmed control,fluoroscopysystems automatically make adjustments to the parameters controlling x‐ray production, beam filtration, detector signal output, digital image processing, and image presentation. The result is that reduction of patient dose does not necessarily require a loss of image quality.
Optimizing performance begins with the determination of which system parameters are dynamically controlled, and the identification of the trigger points for changes in these parameters. Secondly, an understanding of how system parameters affect each other, affect image quality, and affect patient dose can lead to better choices in how the system should be set up for specific applications. This presentation will systematically describe the functions of the major system components including automatic exposure rate control, variable pulse‐rate fluoroscopy, generator operating curves, spectral beam filtration, and other factors that affect the ability of the imagingsystem to deliver optimum diagnostic images at moderate patient dose.
Educational Objectives:
1. Provide an understanding of modern fluoroscopic imagingsystem component design and functionality.
2. Describe specific ways in which equipment settings can enhance or detract from optimum performance.
- CE‐Imaging: The Physics and Technology of Radiography and Fluoroscopy II
TU‐A‐352‐01: Fluoroscopic Dose Measurement and Management35(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2962421View Description Hide Description
Radiation usage during fluoroscopically guided interventions can be high enough to warrant careful dosimetry and patient management. Basic compliance with the usual set of local regulatory requirements may not be sufficient for patient safety. Many of these rules date back to an era in which fluoroscopy was used for simple diagnostic procedures. The X‐ray tubes of this earlier era often overloaded and shut down before dangerous doses were delivered. Neither of these suppositions are currently valid. For example, modern systems meeting all regulatory dose restrictions are capable of delivering table top air kerma rates exceeding 200 mGy/min for normal modefluoroscopy and 1,500 mGy/min for cinefluorography.
Clinical dosimetry during each complex intervention is facilitated by dosimetric instrumentation built into the fluoroscopic system. The FDA now requires such instrumentation in all new fluoroscopes. The Society of Interventional Radiology has published a standard of practice recommending dosimetry for all interventional procedures. The DICOM‐DOSE project, a joint initiative of DICOM and the IEC will shortly provide tools for automated dose reporting. The Joint Commission has included fluoroscopic procedures with skin doses exceeding 15 Gy in its list of sentinel events; with the implicit challenge to facilities that they can prove the absence of such occurrences.
This course reviews technical elements needed in a program of patient fluoroscopic radiation safety. Key concepts include: ICRU diagnostic dosimetric quantities and their fluoroscopic extensions FDA and IEC compliance measurements.
Construction dosimetric features, and performance of modern fluoroscopes Extended QA protocols for compliance measurements, system characterization and clinical dosimetry.Dose recording and reporting, including DICOM‐DOSE. The Joint Commission fluoroscopy sentinel event.
Educational Objectives:
1. Understand dosimetric concepts relating to interventional fluoroscopy.
2. Characterize the dosimetric features and performance of a modern fluoroscope.
3. Be able to set up a clinical dose recording and reporting policy that will meet clinical and JC requirements.
- CE‐Imaging: The Physics and Technology of Radiography and Fluoroscopy III
WE‐A‐352‐01: Quality Assurance Procedures for Digital Radiography35(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2962674View Description Hide Description
Diagnosticmedical physicists have traditionally played a key role in the radiology department's Quality Assurance (QA) program. Procedures for QA of digital radiography (DR) systems are less well‐established than those designed for conventional screen‐film radiography. Some methods that were appropriate for conventional systems do not yield accurate results for digital systems. Methods that rely on images on film cannot be performed in a facility devoid of chemical processing. Methods that do not consider effects of all stages of the digital imaging chain from acquisition to display are likely to provide erroneous results. Digital systems often do not provide data in a convenient form for assessing performance. Nevertheless, medical physicists are responsible for designing and directing efforts to assure the safety and efficacy of DR.
Development of standards for performance verification of digital radiographic systems has been outpaced by commercialization of the technology. Practitioners, operators, vendors, and medical physicists are uncertain as to how to configure, calibrate, and verify systems for the best diagnostic quality images at the lowest practical radiation exposure to the patient. Several manufacturers have fielded commercial systems for performance verification, but long term data indicating trends and action limits is rare. Sources of definitive information on practical clinical methods are also scarce in the scientific literature. This has led to the current situation where clinical imaging operations are routinely conducted using systems that are not optimized.
The good news is that methods in common practice for conventional radiography can be applied with modification to digital radiography. Some of these methods are described in recent literature. The AAPM has recognized the dilemma and has initiated an effort to provide practical guidance to clinical physicists, i.e. Task Group 150.
This lecture will discuss some components of a QA program for DR, including adaptation of conventional QA processes. The lecture will discuss methods of evaluating system performance and provide examples of potential interferences. The lecture will review commercial devices for performance evaluation and their limitations. Finally, some ongoing standardization efforts will be described.
Educational Objectives:
1. Review components of a QA program and show how they apply to DR.
2. Understand how some conventional tests should be modified for a digital radiographic system integrated into an electronic image management system.
3. Identify key references and standards that can be useful in QA of DR.
- CE‐Imaging: The Physics and Technology of Radiography and Fluoroscopy V
TH‐A‐352‐01: Management of Interventional Equipment and Suite: Cradle to Grave35(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.2962818View Description Hide Description
The life of any fluoroscopic imaging device begins with someone's perceived need for it and ends when it is removed from the clinical environment. In between these "cradle and grave" milestones, the machine must meet clinical objectives, provide good image quality, and reduce radiation dose to both patients and personnel. An organized program that achieves cost effective quality improvement is required to achieve these objectives. The first step identifies the clinical requirements of the imager. This identification assists obtaining adequate project funding. One acquires the imager by identifying the vendor of choice, negotiating the purchase, and issuing a purchase contract. One concurrently must plan an effective and efficient supporting facility followed by monitoring of the progress of renovation/construction. After the unit is installed, the owner acceptance tests the imager followed by staff training. A comprehensive program of routine testing, maintenance, repair, and record keeping to assure equipment performance begins after commissioning of the unit and continues throughout its life.
Educational Objectives:
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2. Understand important steps in selecting, negotiating, and contracting the purchase of imaging equipment.
3. Understand basic elements of facility design necessary to support selected imaging equipment.
4. Understand the objectives of acceptance testing of state‐of‐the‐art imaging equipment.
5. Understand the basic elements of a program to assure equipment performance after its commissioning.


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UEFA ban Galatasaray from Europe for two years
UEFA has announced that Galatasaray will be banned from UEFA club competitions for the next two seasons after the Turkish club failed to comply with financial fair play settlement terms.
UEFA has announced that Galatasaray will be banned from UEFA club competitions for the next two seasons after the Turkish club failed to comply with financial fair play settlement terms.
Four League of Ireland clubs are set to receive a welcome windfall from UEFA as a result of Financial Fair Play.
Manchester City have had their restrictions on transfer spending and Champions League squad size lifted after meeting their financial fair play target, UEFA has announced.
UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations have been expanded and strengthened with the intention of attracting new investors as well as ensuring financial stability.
The Financial Fair Play rules that saw Manchester City handed a huge fine by UEFA last season are set to be relaxed.
Liverpool have been cleared of any financial fair play breaches by UEFA, but Hull have been fined €200,000 (£145,000).
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has a degree in economics, but admits even he struggles to understand the Financial Fair Play regulations and called for UEFA to make them clearer.
Manchester City should be assured of complying with UEFA's financial fair play rules this season after drastically cutting their losses compared to last year.
Liverpool are confident they will avoid any sanctions from UEFA for financial fair play (FFP) rule breaches.
Liverpool are comfortable with UEFA's investigations into a possible breach of the financial fair play regulations because they support the system, according to manager Brendan Rodgers.
Liverpool will be named as one of several clubs under investigation by UEFA for possible financial fair play (FFP) breaches this week.
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini admits he is baffled by UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules.
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has revealed Financial Fair Play restrictions were the key factor in striker Alvaro Negredo's departure.
Manchester City's fine for breaching UEFA's financial fair play rules is to be shared out around the other clubs in the Champions League.
UEFA have warned that the record-breaking spending in January will impact on clubs when they are assessed for the new financial fair play rules.
Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook has promised the club have no intention of breaking UEFA's new financial fair-play rules.
UEFA president Michel Platini has announced that clubs competing in European competition will not be allowed to spend more than they earn.


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Intel Xeon E5 chips are clocked down to improve performance per watt
Performance scales poorly beyond 3GHz
By Lawrence Latif
Thu Jan 31 2013, 13:49
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BOLOGNA: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC) vendor Eurotech said it scaled down the clock speed of Intel's Xeon E5 processors in order to meet its performance per watt goals.
Eurotech, which took the wraps off its Aurora Tigon cluster at the Cineca HPC datacenter and is in pole position to sit on top of the Green 500 list in May, said it scaled back the clock frequencies of the Xeon E5 processors in order to attain higher performance per watt characteristics. The firm also showed results that indicate CPU performance gains hit a plateau after 3GHz.
Giampietro Tecchiolli, CTO of Eurotech presented results using the HPL benchmark that showed not only that CPU performance gains plateaud after 3GHz but power consumption increased. Tecchiolli said the upshot of this was a measured drop in performance per watt as CPU frequency increased.
Tecchiolli confirmed that Eurora's Aurora Tigon cluster uses Intel Xeon E5-2687W processors that have frequencies scaled down, though he wouldn't give exact figures. He added that most of the compute power, especially in the publicised Linpack figures, comes from Nvidia's Tesla K20 GPGPU accelerator boards rather than Intel's Xeon chips, therefore running the CPUs at a lower frequency has a relatively small peak performance hit.
Geoff Ballew, senior manager of Nvidia's Tesla Compute business unit told The INQUIRER that its Tesla GPGPU accelerator board can also have its clock speed tuned to specific applications within certain parameters, though he wouldn't say whether customers are having to do so right now in order to attain high performance per watt figures. Ballew said Tesla clock speeds can be altered in order to meet overall system power budgets put forth by datacentres.
That Eurotech, and presumably other HPC vendors, are having to underclock CPUs in order to improve performance per watt characteristics is deeply worrying for the future ability of x86 CPUs to push HPC performance into the exascale region. However Eurotech's figures suggest that since accelerators are doing the vast majority of the heavy lifting, lower power ARM cores could find their way into HPC clusters acting as little more than job schedulers, making a Tegra and Tesla HPC cluster seem all the more feasible once Nvidia adopts the ARMv8 architecture.
ARM chips can't even reach 3 GHz and there are none in production mobile chips that even reach 2 GHz yet. The fact that Xeon holds its performance/watt up to 3 GHz is actually impressive and bodes well for having future mobile Haswell chips with turbo speeds up to 3 GHz. You are too stupid to realize when you are actually posting good news about Intel chips !! LOL
The HPC benchmark used to rank these machines is the Linpack benchmark which is a DP floating point matrix math operation. There are probably two ways to arrange the HW.
1. SMP: where you have a CPU with a lot of cores.
2. Accelerators: where you add boards to the system that you use to speed execution of the code on (commonly some kind of ARM GPU solotion: Eurotech).
When you add Accelerators, there are two ways to run the benchmark.
1. run entirely on the accelerators (Eurotech because accelerator is different from host)
2. run on both the host CPU and the accelerators.
For the Eurotech configured machine, they are using the host CPU to shuffle data. Lowering the frequency on the host CPU and therefore the power it consumes makes sense because they are running the benchmark on the Tesla accelerators.
They displaced a Xeon + Phi machine from the top. The Xeon + Phi configuration can run code on the host Xeon only, Phi only or both Xeon and Phi using the OpenMP API. Intel released a new C and Fortran compiler last January that supports these execution modes.
For floating point code, a big difference will be the FMA instruction support where a FP multiply and add happen together. FMA makes a big difference in FP code. For the Green 500, Haswell will not make much of a difference, since much of the work is done on the accelerators. Putting the FMA on the Phi would make the big difference.
Marsavian got tired of watching the TRAINWRECK that is INTC.
This piece is filled with broad speculation but very little fact. In HPC performance is hugely dependent on the code. Since most real world code is rarely perfectly parallel the CPU performance for the non-parallel portions of an algorithim still greatly influences the shortest time to completion for any task. And as suggested by the author, if the majority of work is done by accelerators and not the CPU performing administration functions, there is little to gain in power efficiency by using an ARM.


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By Michelle Singletary, Columnist
Spring, with its rebirth and warm days, is as a good as time as any to get busy throwing out the stuff clogging your home, office, mind and spirit.
I'm going to do it. I'm going to throw out 50 things. That's the seemingly simple advice in Gail Blanke's new book.
Blanke, a motivational speaker and president and chief executive of Lifedesigns, has written "Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life" (Springboard Press, $13.99). It's the Color of Money Book Club pick for April.
You may be wondering what this book has to do with personal finance.
Actually, quite a bit.
Many of the people who have financial issues got into their money mess because of what Blanke calls life plaque — bad memories from childhood, a sense of entitlement, awful money habits and old debts. If this describes you, aren't you tired of holding on to that baggage?
Why 50 things?
It's not an arbitrary number, Blanke promises: "Once you make it to 50, a kind of wonderful momentum takes over; before you know it, the throwing-out thing becomes a habit, an ongoing mindset."
So what do you toss?
Blanke answers this question by giving you the "rules of disengagement." They are:
Rule 1. If the item, memory, job or even person is weighing you down, get rid of it.
Rule 2. If the thing is not contributing something positive, let it go.
Rule 3. If it takes you a long time to decide whether something needs to be tossed, throw it out.
Rule 4. If you're afraid to throw out something, get rid of the fear.
One of the chapters that really hit home for me was "Letting Go of Needing to Feel Secure."
"There was this idea that if you worked and saved and kept a lid on your wildest dreams, not to mention your expenses, you'd be fine," Blanke writes. "Well, all those securities are, if not totally defunct, more than a little iffy these days."
The recession has made many people — myself included — realize that security can't just come with the job you hold or the emergency money you've saved. Both can vanish sooner than you think. Blanke says don't covet and cling to security — especially financial security — to the point that when it's taken away, you crumble.
Blanke's book is divided into four parts. In part one, you get rid of the unused stuff in your house. No more junk drawers. In part two, you attack your office or desk or the part of your house designated as your workspace. "Throw out all the debris that's accumulated there, which just might be slowing your ability to gain traction in a new assignment, a new company or even a whole new career," she says.
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So are you ready to throw out 50 things? If so, I have a challenge for you. As you think about the stuff you need to pitch, may I suggest that you put on your list at least five financial things?
Among them, get rid of a lingering small debt. Throw out old financial documents you no longer need (that pile of papers counts as just one thing). Shed the anger of a lost job or home.
Here's the thing about Blanke's book when it comes to your finances:
People want higher incomes so they can live a better life, and this often just means having more stuff and the debt that goes with the accumulation of it.
But what if you started throwing out things? What if the purging process makes you more appreciative of what you have? This has the possibility of making you realize you can make do with the money you have.
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