The 2025 SCCT Annual Scientific Meeting will be held in Montreal, Canada.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS

There are two types of abstracts accepted for submission — standard abstracts and
educational abstracts.

Standard abstracts are considered for presentations and should consist of technical or clinical research.

Educational abstracts are designed to teach or review imaging signs, pathologic correlations, procedures, techniques, treatments and interventions or other aspects related to the practice of imaging.

 

The submission site is now closed.   

 

During the submission process, you will select the type of abstract you would like considered.

Deadline for abstract submission is Friday, March 7, 2025 11:59 PM, Eastern Time.

 

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE 

Notification of acceptance will be sent to the presenting author after the review period is complete. Only the person who is listed as the presenting author will be notified. It is up to this person to notify the remainder of the co-authors.

**PLEASE NOTE: First Authors and presenters who are employed by an ineligible company will not be considered for the Best Abstract Award or the Young Investigators Award. The ACCME defines “ineligible company” as any company whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. The ACCME does not consider companies whose mission and function are: (1) providing clinical services directly to patients; or (2) the education of healthcare professionals; or (3) serving as fiduciary to patients, the public, or population health to be ineligible companies.

 

PRIOR PRESENTATION/PUBLICATION POLICY AND EMBARGO POLICY

When submitting an abstract to any SCCT Meeting, the First Authors agree to the Prior Presentation/Publication Policy and Embargo Policy on behalf of all parties involved with the work on which the abstract is based. The First Author is responsible for communicating the policies to all involved parties, including co-authors and grantors, complying with these policies, and will be held accountable for any policy violations of the abstract.

Prior to the SCCT Meeting, the contents and conclusions of the abstract must not be presented at or published in conjunction with any scientific, medical, or educational meeting with the exception of study results presented at closed (non-public) meetings, such as investigator or cooperative group meetings, so long as no meeting materials are publicly disseminated. In addition, the contents and conclusions of the abstract are embargoed and must not be published in a scientific, medical, or educational publication (in any medium), in whole or in part, before the abstract is published online by SCCT and/or presented at the SCCT Meeting to which it was submitted.

Once an abstract has been publicly released by SCCT and the embargo has lifted, you may widely distribute a press release containing the full data, including any additional or updated data that will be presented at the meeting even if not included in the abstract itself.



STANDARD ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS

• Abstracts must be submitted through this submission platform.
• Unless specifically stated otherwise, the author submitting the abstract is the presenting author.
• Abstract Structure: All abstracts must be formatted into these four labelled sections
  • Introduction: A brief introduction stating the abstract's purpose. Please use
  • 'Introduction' and not 'Background' or 'Purpose' as the section header.
  • Methods: A brief description of methods.
  • Results: A summary of the results.
  • Conclusion: A statement of conclusions reached. Do not state simply that "the results
  • will be discussed."
• The abstract body may contain a maximum of 2,500 characters. A maximum of one graph/table and one image may be uploaded. The program counts the number of spaces and characters in a table and automatically deducts from the total character limit. Images have a set amount of 320 characters. When you upload an image, the platform will deduct 320 characters from the total number of characters. Author names and institutions will not count towards the word limit.
• Presenting authors may submit more than one abstract for review. You must complete a separate submission for each abstract.

See the follow abstract example for formatting:

1.  Abstract Categories and Keywords:

 

SCCT supplies abstract categories to help you group your abstract into a broad subject area. Please select the category that best suits your work to assist us in placing your submission in the appropriate session.

2. SCCT-Best Abstract Award:

A panel of judges will review the top-scoring abstract presentations and select winners. This award is open to all abstracts submitted to the annual scientific meeting. No separate application is necessary.

3. Canon Young Investigator Awards (YIA) - Sponsored by an educational grant from Canon Medical Systems, Inc.:

Criteria:

• Authors will be within five (5) years of completing a training program.
  
• The work on which the abstract is based must not have been previously published.
• Finalists must register for and attend the SCCT ASM and present their abstract at the YIA Oral Abstract Session.
• Authors may not be finalists more than twice.

How to apply for the YIA competition
Applicants submit through SCCT’s standard annual abstract submission process prior to the ASM:
Submit an abstract by following the instructions
Click “yes” for the question on the submission site about whether you wish to be considered for the YIA program. Abstract authors who do not check yes are not considered.
Authors who are selected as YIA finalists must submit a 1,000-word mini manuscript.  

Authors who do not submit both an abstract and a mini manuscript will not be considered.

YIA Award abstracts that are not selected as finalists are still eligible for regular abstract sessions.

4. Publication of Abstracts:

Titles and co-authors of accepted presentations will be listed in the onsite programs. Full text of accepted abstracts will be published in an online supplement of the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (except Educational abstracts).

 

EDUCATIONAL ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

 

• Educational abstracts are designed to teach or review imaging signs, pathologic correlations, procedures, techniques, treatments and interventions or other aspects related to the practice of imaging.
• Educational abstracts will not be published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.
• The abstract body may contain a maximum of 1,350 characters. The program counts the number of spaces and characters in a table and automatically deducts from the total character limit. Images have a set amount of 320 characters. When an image is uploaded, 320 characters will be deducted from the total. Author names and institutions will not count towards the character limit.
• The abstract title: The title should be brief, but long enough to identify clearly the nature of the abstract.
• The abstract structure must be formatted into two labeled sections:
  • Section 1 – The abstract body, which should include:
    • Teaching points
    • Table of Contents/Outline
  • Section 2 - This section should include a sample of five PowerPoint slides (figures /images/charts/graphs, must be original).
    • The intent of the required PowerPoint upload is to inform the reviewer of the specific content that the learner should expect to see in a completed exhibit. Your opportunity for acceptance largely depends on what the reviewer perceives as a well thought out study rather than a promissory note.

 

Questions? Contact education@scct.org.

The submission site is now closed.