Imaging Services and Radiology

As a sign of Alvarado's ongoing commitment to serve the medical needs of our community with highly advanced acute care, the hospital now provides a New GE™ Nuclear Medicine Scanner with SPECT/CT capabilities. This new SPECT/CT feature allows us to overlay CT images with our nuclear medicine study for even more definitive diagnoses. This works particularly well with parathyroid imaging, bone imaging and any Infection imaging. Our increased capacity means we can now perform even more cardiac and nuclear studies in half the time with better image resolution!

• Includes any bone of the body from head to toes.

• ACR, federal- and state-accredited facility
• Board-certified radiologists specializing in mammography
• Mammography screening
• Mammography diagnostic
• Ductograms

• Myelography
• Upper and lower GI studies
• Arthrography
• Barium enemas
• Urography
• Cystogram
• Esophagrams
• Hysterosalpingograms

• Chest
• Abdomen
• Pelvis
• Head\neck (including brain, ear, sinus, orbital, facial)
• Spine (including cervical, thoracic and lumbar)
• Extremity (upper and lower)
• Biopsies
• Drainage
• Radio frequency ablations (liver and lung)

• Extremity (upper and lower)
• Chest
• Abdomen
• Pelvis
• Spine (including cervical, thoracic and lumbar)
• Head/Neck (including brain, orbital, facial)
• MR angiograms

• Arterial/ABI and carotid doppler exams
• Abdomen, breast, scrotal, salivary and thyroid glands
• Obstetrics/gynecology
• Biopsies and aspirations
• Drainages (abscess, paracentesis, thoracentesis)
• Venous doppler exam, including vein mapping
• Bypass graft assessment and dialysis grafts
• Breast (biopsy, cyst aspirations, and wire/clip localization)

Vascular and Interventional Radiology

• Angiography (i.e. aorta, carotid, vertebral, abdominal, pelvic, etc.)
• Biopsies
• Abscess drainages
• Venous access procedures (central lines, vas cath, tunneled line, PICC lines)
• Thrombolysis and infusion therapy
• Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA)
• Stent placement
• Dialysis fistulagrams
• Trans catheter therapy
• Embolization
• Trans jugular intrahepatic porto systemic shunt (TIPS)
• Gastrointestinal tract interventions (tube placements, biliary stent and drainage)
• Urinary tract interventions (nephrostomy, ureteral stent placement)
• Uterine fibroid embolization

• Bone Imaging: including whole body, limited and 3-phase (can perform SPECT with CT overlay if indicated)
• Cardiac Studies: including myocardial perfusion with a treadmill or adenosine stress, ejection fractions and thallium viability
• V/Q lung scans, also lung quantification
• Hepatobiliary studies
• Thyroid studies, to include uptake and imaging
• Parathyroid Imaging, to include injection before surgery
• Renal imaging, to include 3-phase with/without lasix and/or medications
• Liver/spleen Imaging, to include SPECT with CT overlay if indicated
• Hepatic hemangioma study
• G.I. bleeding imaging
• Gastric emptying study
• Brain imaging, to include vascular flow, brain death and SPECT with CT overlay if indicated
• Cisternograms, shunt evaluation and CSF leaks
• Sentinel node injection, to include breast or melanoma for pre-surgical node detection
• WBC Infection imaging, limited or whole body
• Tumor localization studies, including SPECT with CT overlay if indicated
• Therapy studies, including whole body scans and oral therapy, to also include bone mets therapy (IV)
• Esophageal transit study
• Meckel’s diverticulum study