Facilities
The hospital is furnished with state-of-the-art imaging equipment for both clinical and research applications. Time may be scheduled for research on both clinical and research scanners (depending upon availability). Since September 1997, cross-sectional imaging has been filmless. There are five full-time IT and network coordinators who manage the GE PACS Centricity viewing stations, IDXRad v10 integrated scheduling/report system, and Web interface. Hospital equipment includes:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging: 8 scanners
- (1) GE Discovery 750 (3.0T)
- (2) GE Signa Excite HDX (1.5T)
- (1) GE Signa Excite 2 (1.5T)
- (1) Siemens Sonata (1.5T)
- (1) Siemens Allegra (3.0T)
- (1) Siemens Avanto (1.5T)
- (1) Bruker research scanner (9.4T)
- Additional 3T and 7T scanners scheduled for installation in the Center for Science in Medicine (currently under construction)
Computed Tomography: 9 scanners
- (1) GE Discovery CT 750 HD 64-slice
- (1) GE Lightspeed HDXT 64-slice (located in the Emergency Department)
- (1) Siemens Sensation Cardiac 64-slice
- (2) Siemens Sensation 16-slice
- (1) GE LightSpeed 8-slice
- (1) Siemens Emotion 6-slice
- (1) Siemens Sensation 4-slice
- (1) Siemens VolumeZoom 4-slice
PET: 2 clinical scanners
- (2) GE DLS Discovery PET-CT (16-slice)
Angiography: 1 dedicated neuro unit
- (1) Philips Integris biplane neurointerventional suite
Also available (primarily for body interventional):
- (3) Philips Integris monoplane angiography suites
- (1) Philips BV300 C-arm procedure room
Fluoroscopy: 5 shared fluoroscopy stations
- (4) Philips DSI fluoroscopy rooms
- (1) GE Advantx fluoroscopy rooms
PACS network (GE Centricity):
- (28) Departmental Reading Stations
Post-Processing Workstations:
- (7) Siemens Leonardo/Wizard workstations
- (1) TeraRecon server with clients on PACS reading stations
- (2) TeraRecon Workstations
- (3) Vital Images Vitrea 2 workstations