Procedures
The Radiology Department is equipped with the most up-to-date multi-detector, with a 64 slice CT to be installed in the Emergency Department in the near future. Other equipment includes: a 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance scanner, mobile PET/CT, 12 routine diagnostic rooms, four fluoroscopic rooms with closed circuit television and cine capabilities, an all-digital modern angiographic suite and a suite for uroradiological procedures. Ultrasound and Nuclear Medicine Units offer high-tech equipment for gray-scale ultrasonography and isotopic studies, including three gamma cameras, all digital with SPECT capabilities and computer software dedicated to computerized flow and quantitative radioisotopic procedures. A state of the art mammography suite includes a Mammotone for stereotactic breast core biopsies.
A state of the art Radiology information system maintains all orders, results and statistics for the entire department and this information system is interfaced with the entire hospital information system for improved patient care. Filmless images from the PACS systems can be viewed not only in the Radiology Department, but in other related clinical and educational areas in the hospital.
Radiology averages more than 90,000 diagnostic examinations annually, including approximately 3,000 nuclear medicine studies, 7,000 ultrasound studies, 22,000 computerized tomographic scans, and 1,000 MR scans in the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center. Special procedures offered include arthrography, myelography, kyphoplasty, hysterosalpingography, cholangiography, and all interventional procedures including vascular angioplasties and endovascular stenting, uterine fibroid embolization, uroradiological nephrolithotripsy and radiofrequency ablation.
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