Overall attendance at ECR 2021 was 15,738, compared with 15,265 at ECR 2020, according to statistics issued by the European Society of Radiology (ESR).
The figure of 14,776 professional attendees at ECR 2021 online compared well with the 14,602 professional attendees who were onsite at ECR 2019, when the congress was last held face-to-face at the Austria Center Vienna. However, the number of industry attendees at ECR 2021 was only 962, as opposed to the 8,637 present at ECR 2019.
Overall session attendance was considerably higher at ECR 2021 than it was in 2020 or 2019. Session attendance was 131,803 in 2021, when ECR ran five live channels. In 2020, only two channels were available, and session attendance was 48,591. Overall session attendance was at 82,986 in 32 rooms during ECR 2019, according to the statistics.