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May 30, 2007

Heavy metal: Providence convention will weigh in

PROVIDENCE -- It might not be the most high-profile convention to come to town, but it will apparently be the heaviest.

The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) has scheduled its 2007 annual meeting for Providence, according to the Rhode Island Convention Center Authority.

In addition to the conventioneers, the organization plans to lug 250 tons of equipment to the convention center exhibit floor, including CT scan machines and other heavy, medical imaging equipment.

That would be the most freight ever assembled for a convention, more than is deployed for the boat show, according to Arleen F. Oliva, a senior sales manager at the convention center.

-- Journal staff writer Benjamin N. Gedan

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