Medical Imaging – Patient-focused Technology
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64 Slice CT Scanner
Captures three-dimensional, high-definition, color images in a non-invasive, painless procedure
hink you need to travel to a big city hospital for the latest medical imaging techniques – not always. MCMC offers patients access to equipment that uses a digital wireless cassette to capture x-ray images of internal body structures. This technology frees physicians from time consuming setup procedures and enables them to focus their efforts on doing what they do best − caring for our patients. This is just one example of the high quality medical imaging equipment available at MCMC. Radiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerized tomography (CT) and ultrasound create images of parts and functions of the body enabling physicians to examine patients. Nuclear medicine helps to diagnose and treat a wide variety of diseases and disorders through brain scans, thyroid uptakes and scans, lung scans, cardiac imaging, liver and gallbladder imaging and bone scans. Digital mammography is provided at the Kempton Center for Women where patients appreciate a comfortable, spa-like setting. These machines and techniques are designed to expose patients to the minimum amount of radiation required to obtain the images needed to make diagnosis and treatment decisions. Interventional radiology, also known as image-guided, minimally invasive surgery, enables diagnosis and treatment of many disorders on an outpatient basis. Biopsies, drainage and catheter placement procedures are performed using image guidance minimizing the patient’s discomfort and reducing infection rates and recovery times. All patient records, which include an average CT radiation dose report, are stored in digital format. These electronic images can be shared with specialists or other consulting medical professionals. Patients also have the option to pickup a CD of their images. “Advanced care with a personal touch” - at MCMC this means the finest medical imaging technology is right here in our community.
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