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Teresa Beem, Director
(515) 433-8160

The Boone County Hospital (BCH) Radiology Department offers the latest in state-of-the-art medical imaging technology for everyone involved including the patient, the physician, and hospital staff.

The new Siemens Aera 1.5T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) was installed in June and is now being used.  An MRI is a sophisticated and highly accurate imaging technique used to diagnose diseases of the brain, spine, skeleton, chest, abdomen, pelvis, and blood vessels.  It is a completely safe, non-invasive, and painless diagnostic procedure.  With a large magnet, radio waves, and a computer, MRI produces detailed cross-sectional pictures of your internal organs and structures without using ionizing radiation.  Radiology staff are able to do faster scans than they used to and now offer breast MRI scans.     

During an MRI exam, individuals will be placed in a strong magnetic field that aligns the nuclear magnetism of protons in the hydrogen atoms, which make up 95 percent of and individuals body.  When a radio wave passes through those protons, they generate a radio signal that is processed by computer in the form of tomographic images.  The individual’s doctor will use the Radiologist’s report of the MRI scan to make an accurate diagnosis and plan of treatment.

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BCH offers 3D mammography.  Due to the advanced technology, the 3D mammogram is clinically proven to significantly increase the detection of breast cancers, while simultaneously decreasing the number of women asked to return for additional testing.  In conventional 2D mammography, overlapping tissue is a leading reason why small breast cancers may be missed and normal tissue may appear abnormal, leading to unnecessary callbacks.  A 3D exam includes a three-dimensional method of imaging that can greatly reduce the tissue overlap effect.

Digital Radiography (DR) accounts for 70 percent of all imaging procedures, in comparison to 10 percent for DR scans and six percent for MRIs. In addition to saving time and providing improved diagnostic X-ray images, DR simplifies the process of transmission for physician consultation because the images are already in digital form. Advantages of DR for the patient include safety, less waiting time, and reduced radiation. 

Our CT system provides faster exams at as low as reasonably achievable doses, while producing high quality images required for accurate diagnoses.  The CTs large bore opening offers a more spacious feeling for patients, while a high table weight limit expands the range of patients who can be imaged.  Radiology Director Teresa Beem says, "The speed of the CT enables our clinicians to obtain critical patient information for enhanced diagnoses faster than before.  The design of the system allows us to successfully image a range of patients from pediatric to bariatric to further improve patient safety and comfort."

BCH offers 4D ultrasound capabilities.  In a 3-D ultrasound, many 2-D images are taken from various angles and pieced together to form a three-dimensional image. This looks more like what you’re used to seeing in a typical photograph. 4-D is similar to 3-D, but it shows movement, so you can see your baby kicking or opening and closing their eyes.

A picture archiving communications system (PACS) is dedicated to storage, retrieval, distribution and presentation of images from the Radiology Department. Benefits include the availability of online images 24 hours a day, all reports and images on one system, multiple physicians accessing the same study at the same time, and permanently archived images.
Nuclear medicine is up to two times faster than the mobile unit that was used in the 2000s. Nuclear medicine imaging techniques give doctors another way to look inside the human body.

These procedures are performed at Boone County Hospital: 

To schedule any of these services, please call (515) 433-8440.

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