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Chandigarh 14th September:- The 18th Annual Meeting of AOSPR (Asian and Oceanic Society of Paediatric Radiology) combined with 16th Annual meeting of ISPR (Indian Society of Paediatric Radiology) was inaugurated by Prof. Jagat Ram, Director, PGIMER, Chandigarh. The conference is being organized by Department of Radiodiagnosis, PGIMER, Chandigarh under the Chairmanship of Prof. N. Khandelwal, Head, Department of Radiodiagnosis. Prof.A.K. Saxena and Prof. K.S.Sodhi are Organizing Secretaries of the conference.
Around 800 delegates from different parts of the world are attending the conference. In today's deliberation, various scientific sessions and symposia were held on paediatric imaging and paediatric emergencies. The major attraction of the day was Dr. MVK Shetty Oration on "The Enigma of Paediatric Liver Tumors; can Multi-modality Imaging be the Guiding Light?" which was delivered by Prof. Raju Sharma, AIIMS, India. Dr. Raju highlighted the role of MRI in diagnosing and characterizing liver tumors in children. Dr. Arcot Gajraj Oration on "MR Imaging of the Newborn Brain and Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy" was delivered by Prof. Manohar Shroff, Radiologist-in-Chief in the Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids), Toronto, Canada. He discussed the imaging findings on MRI in encephalopathy.
The day ended with the interesting film reading session, conducted by experts in Paediatric Radiology.
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