Diagnostic Radiology go to Diagnostic Radiology web site
Wake Forest Baptist offers a full complement of screening, diagnostic and interventional radiological technologies.
Among the services available are:
· Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques including spectroscopy, a method that provides non-invasive information on the chemical nature of brain tumors; functional MR, a way of correlating brain structure and function; and diffusion/perfusion investigative techniques that may help to provide insight into tumor grade and recurrence.
· Computed Tomography
· Cerebral Angiography
· Positron Emission Tomography (PET) utilizing conventional FDG-18 as well as a range of other isotopes.
· Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) – an investigative breast imaging technique that holds great promise for detecting small breast cancers so that treatment may be initiated when the outlook is most favorable.
· Interventional neuroradiology techniques including pre-surgical tumor embolization and intro-arterial chemotherapy.
· Interventional Radiological techniques for providing minimally invasive treatment for metastatic tumors, particularly in the liver
· Colonoscopy and virtual colonoscopy, a non-invasive screening tool for detecting polyps in the colon (invented at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center)
· Mammography for screening as well as following surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy in women with a history of breast cancer.