Medical societies and acronyms

Medical Imaging and Related Societies

Following are medical imaging and other medical societies that may be mentioned in RSNA content and the acronyms that may be used after the first reference.

Note: When referencing RSNA, use Society (capital S) but reference other societies with a lowercase s. Same is true for Gold Medal—capitalize the RSNA Gold Medal but lowercase for other societies.

American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
American Association for Women Radiologists (AAWR)
American College of Radiology (ACR)
American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM)
American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS)
American Society of Emergency Radiology (ASER)
American Society of Head and Neck Radiology (ASHNR)
American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR)
American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Note: the name does not match the acronym
American Society of Spine Radiology (ASSR)
Asian Oceanian Society of Radiology (AOSR)
Association of Program Directors in Radiology (APDR)
Association of University Radiologists (AUR)
Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR)
European Society of Radiology (ESR)
Healthcare and Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
InterAmerican Congress of Radiology (CIR)
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
International Society of Radiology (ISR)
Paulista Society of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging (SPR)
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR)
Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR)
Society of Breast Imaging (SBI)
Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance (SCBT-MR)
Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO)
Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR)
Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)
Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR)
Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR)

Academic Institutions

When referencing the Department of Radiology or Division of Radiology at a specific institution and using it with the institution name, capitalize the terms. In other cases, department of radiology or division of radiology should be lowercase.