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Advantages of St. Anthony Outpatient Imaging The St. Anthony Outpatient Imaging Center offers a complete array of advanced imaging technology. In choosing equipment for this new center, we selected systems designed to promote patient comfort and safety. Plus, your physician can request your medical images via a highly secured online portal for more rapid consultation with our specialists. Like all areas of the new campus, this center has been designed for a more satisfying patient and family experience. Two examples of this are: • Ease of access. You can enter the Imaging Center directly from the parking area on the south side of Medical Plaza 2 or by the walkway connecting the building with St. Anthony Hospital. Valet parking is free for patients. • More comfortable waiting. Patient areas are considerably more private, as well. Wi-fi is free and cellphones can be used. tissue. Takes longer than CT scanning (30 to 90 minutes compared with 30 to 90 seconds), but “the greater scan time can also provide a greater amount of information,” Hovsepian says. Open MRI: A special MRI unit that is open on the sides to accommodate larger or claustrophobic patients. UltrasoUnd A relatively inexpensive imaging technique that uses no radiation. Instead, it uses “high-frequency sound waves over a million cycles per second—a lot higher frequency than we can hear,” Benseler says. “You’re making a picture from the echoes of the sound that bounce back.” Best at imaging fluid collections and internal structures close to the surface of the body. nUclear medicine Produces images of physiologic processes (the body in action) using small amounts of radioactive material that stay in the body for a short time. To generate images, “instead of having X-rays or anything else going into the body, the radiation in the form of gamma rays comes out of the body from wherever it accumulates,” Benseler says. PET (positron emission tomography) scan: One way of recording the energy given off by radiopharmaceuticals. Often combined with CT scanning for a clear look at both structure and function of organs, tissue and other aspects of the body for more accurate diagnoses. ct scan (compUted tomography) A more sophisticated version of X-ray that produces detailed cross-sectional images—like slices in a loaf of bread—that combine to show a 3-D view. Faster than MRI, and produces higherdefinition images. Uses a powerful magnet and radio-frequency pulses (instead of radiation) to send detailed images to a computer. Excellent at imaging soft online mri (magnetic resonance imaging) To learn more about the state-of-theart imaging technologies at St. Anthony Hospital and how they enhance our specialty cardiovascular, oncology, neuro, spine and trauma care, visit stanthonyhosp.org/imaging. Gain Insight into the World of Imaging photography by thinkstock 20 Vim & Vigor • Sum m er 2 012 http://www.stanthonyhosp.org/imaging

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Vim & Vigor - Summer 2012 - St. Anthony

Vim & Vigor - Summer 2012 - St. Anthony
Contents
Opening Thoughts
Community Connections
Stroke of Genius
A Full Spectrum of Caring
The Breakfast Club
Arthritis Answers
A TV Guide to Radiology
Take Aim
It Might NOT Be Cancer
Colin Firth
Step Up to the Plate
Life After Cancer
Get Dad to the Doc
Virtual Health
All Eyes on the Future
One Summer’s Day
A Family Affair
A New Home for Care
Measuring Up
Ask the Experts

Vim & Vigor - Summer 2012 - St. Anthony