O'Bleness Memorial Hospital's digital diagnostic imaging capabilities include a 64-slice Computed Tomography (CT) scanner. The system provides a highly detailed, thin cross-section images of the body. The images help physicians make more accurate diagnoses than they could with previous CT technology.

The system produces clinical images with technology that captures up to 64 anatomical "slices," or pictures, per rotation of the gantry — a large opening through which the patient is moved on a "couch". The powerful diagnostic tool uses rotating X-rays to view body tissues, generating multiple images that provide more detail than traditional radiography.

Any area of the body can be scanned. In a single image, physicians can see details of a combination of soft tissue (muscles, fat and organs), along with bones and blood vessels. Numerous conditions can be diagnosed, including those of the kidney, heart, liver, lung and spine as well as blood disorders, tumors and cysts. Hemorrhages, infections and blood clots can also be detected.

Because physicians can see the heart in such detail, including vessel walls and surrounding structures, they can often identify the early onset of heart disease.

Scanning with the 64-slice CT takes less time than with the previous CT scanner. During a CT exam, a patient lies on a table and is moved into the gantry where a series of X-ray beams create hundreds of cross-sectional pictures of the patient's body. Seconds later, the system's computer assembles the image slices into the three-dimensional images that a radiologist will interpret.

Radiology Associates personnel — both radiologic technologists who conduct CT scans at O'Bleness and radiologists who interpret the scans — are specially trained in computerized tomography.

Our Floor Map will show you where O'Bleness' Radiology Department is located.