Introduction

Excerpt

This special supplement of Pediatric Radiology represents the culmination of the inaugural Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) Pediatric Oncologic Imaging weekend course, which was conducted Nov. 9–11, 2018, at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. The course was co-chaired by Dr. Adina Alazraki and Dr. Beth McCarville with administrative support from Jennifer Raju of the SPR and Leslie Jones of St. Jude Children’s Hospital. About 120 people from the United States, Canada, Australia, the Middle East and Europe attended the 2½-day course, which offered 17.5 American Medical Association (AMA) Category 1 CME credits and 12.5 SAM credits. The course featured 37 faculty including 8 clinicians (surgeons, oncologists, endocrinologist and pathologist) who discussed a broad range of pediatric malignancies from the most prevalent to the least. The program encompassed a review of a wide variety of modalities in pediatric radiology from the simplest plain radiographs for evaluating bone tumors to the most sophisticated and newest technologies, including hybrid nuclear medicine imaging, contrast-enhanced ultrasound and MRI perfusion- and diffusion-weighted imaging. …