Body Imaging

The Body Imaging program of the Department of Radiology is devoted to further training in non-neurologic ultrasound, CT, and MRI. Faculty expertise in this area includes interventional ultrasound, spiral CT and CT angiography, MR, musculoskeletal MRI, and outcomes research. The staff of this department develops expertise in these fields and participates in resident teaching and various research projects.

Indications for CT scan of the Thorax and Mediastinum

• Primary lung cancer and cancer staging of metastases
• Evaluation of solitary nodule
• Trauma
• Mediastinal tumor
• Cardiac and pericardial disease
• Infections and Inflammatory disease

Additional Procedures

• CT guided biopsy
• Intraperitoneal
• Chemotherapy Distribution Studies
• CT Planning for Radiation Oncology
• Tumor Diagnosis and Response to Therapy
• CT guided percutaneus tumor ablation
• CT Guided abscess drainage
• CT guided aspiration