Pediatric Radiology

New pediatric imaging suites – complete with colorful murals, music and sound effects, and moving images projected on the inside of the machine – are helping to ease the “scanxiety” that may come with undergoing medical imaging exams.

When it comes to medical treatments, the unknown can cause fear and anxiety in both children and their parents. Part of the role of the Child Life Specialist is to make the unknown more familiar and predictable.

Our research with advanced imaging aims to help the children suffering from juvenile arthritis that we are treating today, as well as children in the future.

As a certified child life specialist my job is to help children and their families get through radiology tests as quickly and comfortably as possible. Learn more!

In this country close to 16,000 children under the age of 21 are diagnosed with cancer every year; approximately one-quarter of them will not survive the disease. Here are questions for parents to consider asking in guiding their discussions with caregivers.

Most children have never encountered an MRI machine before, but with these new scan suites, they won’t be scared. Learn more!

As a pediatric radiologist, I am often asked by parents about imaging tests for their children that use medical radiation. Here are important questions to ask your pediatric radiologist:

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland have formally completed an affiliation, building on the hospitals’ mutual commitment to provide outstanding care to children in local communities, and advance medical discovery and treatment for the world.

The patient with a vascular birthmark presents a challenge to the physician, as many entities that may look alike carry different diagnoses and are treated far differently.

Inflammatory bowel disease affects both adults and pediatric patients with an estimated 10,000-47,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Up to 1/3rd of these cases are in children. MR enterography, a non-radiation method of examining the bowel, has recently emerged as highly effective method of assessing disease in these patients.