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Brain Tumor Imaging (Retired on 2026-10-29)

Content Reviewed: January 5, 2025

Mastery Series

Course Description

Join Dr. David Yousem, Dr. Stephen Pomeranz, Dr. Rajan Jain, and Dr. Soonmee Cha as they provide the essentials of brain tumor imaging, including the key anatomical landmarks, effective search patterns, and methods for formulating accurate diagnoses. This course also includes a review of the 2021 WHO CNS Tumor Classification and its relevance and importance to imaging and radiologists.

Through a comprehensive case review, learn Dr. Pomeranz’s approach to interpreting meningiomas and non-glial tumors.

Explore the latest updates with Dr. Cha as she reviews the 2021 WHO CNS Tumor Classification, which incorporates molecular and genetic profiles alongside histology and immunohistochemistry to improve tumor classification and prognostication. She also provides an overview of adult and pediatric brain imaging techniques, including structural and advanced physiologic imaging methods.

Gain confidence assessing gliomas alongside Dr. Jain and Dr. Yousem as they walk through the appearance of different types of gliomas, as well as their approach to tumor mimics and non neoplastic lesions.

Optimize your learning:

  • Test Yourself - Before starting the video, launch the DICOM study and complete your independent review of the case in our diagnostic web viewer.
  • Review at your own pace - Reminder to utilize the video player features to speed up or slow down the video, pause or rewind to best fit your available time and learning needs.
  • Read alongside Expert Faculty - Keep the DICOM study open while you watch expert faculty review the cases. We suggest popping the DICOM viewer open in a new window and viewing side by side with the video on your screen. 

This course was developed with help from Jarunee Intrapiromkul, MD.

Join Dr. David Yousem, Dr. Stephen Pomeranz, Dr. Rajan Jain, and Dr. Soonmee Cha as they provide the essentials of brain tumor imaging, including the key anatomical landmarks, effective search patterns, and methods for formulating accurate diagnoses. This course also includes a review of the 2021 WHO CNS Tumor Classification and its relevance and importance to imaging and radiologists.

Faculty

David M Yousem, MD, MBA

Professor of Radiology, Vice Chairman and Associate Dean

Johns Hopkins University

Stephen J Pomeranz, MD

Chief Medical Officer, ProScan Imaging. Founder, MRI Online

ProScan Imaging

Rajan Jain, MD

Professor of Radiology and Neurosurgery

New York University Grossman School of Medicine

Soonmee Cha, MD

Program Director, Vice Chair of Education

University of California San Francisco Medical Center

Asim F Choudhri, MD

Chief, Pediatric Neuroradiology

Le Bonheur Children's Hospital

This course was retired on October 29, 2026

Any CME you've earned through this course will still remain valid.

Alternate versions of this course are available

Mastery Series

4.25 CME

Brain Tumor Imaging

Introduction to Brain Tumor Imaging

1 m

Case: Assessing Lesion Position

3 m

Intra-Axial vs. Extra-Axial Lesions

3 m

Case: Typical Locations of Meningiomas

3 m

Case: Defining Meningioma

1 m

Case: Meningioma Appearance on MRI

5 m

Case: Meningioma Enhancement

2 m

Case: Meningioma vs. Schwannoma

5 m

Case: Meningiomas in the Posterior Fossa

4 m

Case: Planum Sphenoidale Meningioma with Orbital Apex Extension

3 m

Case: Suprasellar Meningioma

6 m

Case: Optic Nerve Meningioma

5 m

Case: Vascular Encasement of Meningioma With Absent Vasogenic Edema

2 m

Case: Parafalcine Meningioma

6 m

Case: Meningiomatosis

5 m

Case: Solitary Fibrous Tumor

6 m

Case: Hemangioblastoma and Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome

7 m

Case: Recurrent Hemangioblastoma

3 m

Case: Spinal Hemangioblastoma

3 m

Case: VHL Renal Lesions

5 m

Case: Endolymphatic Sac Tumor

3 m

Case: Central Neurocytoma

5 m

Case: Lhermitte-Duclos Disease/Dysplastic Cerebellar Gangliocytoma

5 m

Case: Epidermoid Cyst

4 m

Case: Rhabdomyosarcoma

4 m

Introduction to Glioma Imaging

1 m

Introduction to the 2021 WHO CNS Tumor Classification

5 m

Neuroimaging Techniques For CNS Tumors

12 m

Pediatric Brain Tumors Based on Molecular Genetics: Medulloblastomas

2 m

Pediatric Brain Tumors Based on Molecular Genetics: Ependymomas

6 m

Pediatric Brain Tumors Based on Molecular Genetics: Diffuse Midline Gliomas

4 m

Adult Brain Tumors Based on Molecular Genetics: Solitary Fibrous Tumors and Hemangiopericytoma

2 m

Adult Brain Tumors Based on Molecular Genetics: Circumscribed Gliomas

2 m

Adult Brain Tumors Based on Molecular Genetics: Glioblastomas

3 m

Adult Brain Tumors Based on Molecular Genetics: Diffuse Gliomas

9 m

IDH-Wildtype Gliomas

7 m

Case: Primary IDH-Wildtype Glioma

3 m

Case: IDH-Wildtype Glioma

5 m

Case: IDH-Wildtype Gliobastoma with Epedymal Extension

7 m

IDH-Mutant Gliomas

9 m

Case: IDH-Mutant Astrocytoma, FLAIR Mismatch, Grade 2

4 m

Case: IDH-Mutant Astrocytoma, Grade 2

3 m

Case: IDH-Mutant Oligodendroglioma, Grade 2

2 m

Case: Oligodendroglioma, Grade 3

2 m

Case: CNS Lymphoma

3 m

H3 and BRAF Gliomas

9 m

Case: H3K27M Midline Glioma, Grade 4

3 m

Case: H3K27 Glioma

2 m

Case: BRAF V600E Tumor

5 m

T2 FLAIR Mismatch Sign of IDH-Mutant Astrocytomas

8 m

Case: T2 FLAIR Mismatch Sign, Astrocytoma – 31 y/o Female

1 m

Case: T2 FLAIR Mismatch Sign, Astrocytoma – 28 y/o Male

1 m

Case: IDH Mutant Astrocytoma, No Mismatch Sign

1 m

Approach to Intra-Axial Tumors: Tumor Mimics, Non-Neoplastic Lesions

12 m

Final Pearls, Pediatric Non-Gliomas

5 m

Summary

1 m

Case: Typical Medulloblastoma

2 m

Case: WNT-activated Medulloblastoma

1 m

Case: SHH-activated Medulloblastoma

1 m

Case: Ependymoma

1 m

Case: Posterior Fossa Ependymoma Type B

2 m

Case: Pilocytic Astrocytoma

2 m

Case: Solid Pilocytic Astrocytoma With No Discernible Cyctic Component

2 m

Case: Pilocytic Astrocytoma Within the Fourth Ventricle

2 m

Case: H3K27M Diffuse Midline Glioma With a DIPG Pattern, Grade 4

2 m

Case: Diffuse Midline Glioma With a DIPG Pattern

1 m

Case: Pilocytic Astrocytoma Masked as DIPG

1 m

Case: Embryonal Tumor With Multilayered Rosettes

1 m

Case: Diffuse Midline Glioma With a Bi-thalamic Pattern

1 m

Case: Pilocytic Astrocytoma Arising From the Thalamus

2 m

Case: Diffuse Astrocytoma

1 m

Case: Diffuse Astrocytoma With Apparent Discrete Margins

2 m

Case: Diffuse Astrocytoma With Gliomatosis Cerebri Pattern of Spread

2 m

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