Specialty Protocols

ENT Imaging Capabilities

We offer advanced sequences and protocols for conditions like chronic sinusitis, hearing loss, ear infections, dysphagia, sleep apnea, tonsils and adenoid problems, vertigo, allergies, and head and neck cancer.

(We offer routine ENT CT and MRI sequences and protocols with and without contrast. We can add new protocols as requested.)

ENT CT Protocols*

  • CT Angiogram
  • CT Maxillofacial
  • CT Parathyroid 4D
  • CT Surgical Sinus (Flagon®, Medtronic®, Stealth, Stryker®)
  • CT Sinus Without Contrast
  • CT Soft Tissue Neck
  • CT Temporal Bone and/or IAC

ENT MRI Protocols*

  • MR Angiogram
  • MRI Brain
  • MRI Brain IAC
  • MRI Brain Trigeminal Neuralgia
  • MRI Orbit, Face, and/or Neck
  • MRI Soft Tissue Neck
  • MRI Skull Base
  • MRI TMJ

Other Services

  • Ultrasound
  • X-Ray

*Protocol, Sequences, and Advanced Services may differ by center location. Please contact your Diagnostic Imaging Specialist to verify if the desired imaging is available at your preferred location.

Neurology Imaging Capabilities

Our Advanced Sequences and Protocols for conditions like Multiple Sclerosis,
Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, minor head trauma, and other neurological
conditions.

3D Sequences

3D Sequences are isotropic thin slice images that allow multi-planar reformats and 3D reconstructions. 

Fast Grey Matter Acquisition T1 Inversion Recovery

Fast Gray Matter Acquisition T1 Inversion Recovery (FGATIR) nulls the white matter of the brain to give physicians an accurate and precise look at grey matter structures that are not easily seen with traditional sequences. Useful in evaluating for seizure foci.

Magnetization Prepared 2 Rapid Acquisition Gradient Echoes

Magnetization Prepared 2 Rapid Acquisition Gradient Echoes (MP2RAGE) is a fast 3D T1 sequence with a very high contrast that creates superior grey matter/white matter differentiation, showing a higher brain tissue and lesion contrast in multiple sclerosis patients.

Metal Artifact Reduction Software

Metal Artifact Reduction Software (MARS) ensures the best quality images are produced by minimizing the image artifacts and distortion caused by metal implants throughout the body. Commonly this is used evaluating the spine after surgery with fusion hardware in place. 

Motion Correction in 3 Planes

Motion Correction in 3 Planes addresses both in-plane and through-plane motion artifacts. 

Susceptibility Weighted Imaging

Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI) is an MRI sequence that is exquisitely sensitive to venous blood, hemorrhages, and iron storage, making it commonly used in the diagnosis/treatment of head injuries and concussions. 

Additional Quantitative Reports:

Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Becoming more common in the treatment of tumors and brain injuries; Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is used to visualize, assess, and build 3D models of white matter fiber tracts of the brain. 

NeuroQuant

NeuroQuant, a medical software, provides volumetric measurements of brain structures and compares the volumes to normative reference data adjusted for age, sex, and intracranial volume. This is very useful following patients with dementia, seizures, and neurodegenerative diseases.

*Protocol, Sequences, and Advanced Services may differ by center location. Please contact your Diagnostic Imaging Specialist to verify if the desired imaging is available at your preferred location.

Orthopedic Imaging Capabilities

Our Advanced Sequences and Protocols for conditions like arthritis, joint impingement, osteoporosis, tendinitis and other orthopedic conditions.

(We can add new protocols as requested)

Orthopedic CT Protocols

Hip

  • Conformis®
  • Mako®

Knee

  • Conformis®
    Mako®
    Stryker®
    Zimmer Biomet®

Ankle

  • Prophecy®

Shoulder

  • Blueprint®
    Zimmer Biomet®

Ortho MRI Protocols

Ortho MRI Protocols

Hip

  • Smith and Nephew®

Knee

  • Zimmer Biomet®

Other Sequences, Protocols, and Advanced Services

Ortho MRI Sequence

  • CP Extremity Coil
  • Dedicated Body-Specific Coils (e.g. Ankle)
  • Metal Artifact Reduction Software (MARS)
  • NORAS Orthopedic Coil
  • Ultrafex 18 Large and Small Coils

Ortho CT Protocols

  • Femoral Anteversion Study
  • Scanogram

Advanced Services

  • Arthrogram
  • Ultrasound

Pain Imaging Capabilities

We offer advanced sequences and protocols for conditions like lumbar radiculopathy, spinal stenosis, trigeminal neuralgia, peripheral neuropathy, compression spine fracture, and other chronic pain.

(We offer routine pain MRI and CT sequences and protocols with and without contrast. We can add new protocols as requested.)

Advanced Pain Sequences, Protocols, and Assessments

Spine*

  • 3D Remodeling of Spine CT
  • Cervical/Lumbar/Thoracic Spine
  • Degenerative Disc Disease/Disc Herniation Flexion/Extension Modic Change Measurement (Lumbar Spine MRI)
  • Pfirrmann Grading
  • STIR Sequence

Head/Brain*

  • CISS Sequence for Trigeminal Neuralgia
  •  MRI with Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) Flow

Other*

  • Shoulder
  • Hip
  • Pelvis
  • Sacrum
  • Metal Artifact Reduction Sequence

Other Services

  • CT Myelogram
  • MRI Arthrogram
  • Open MRI
  • Ultrasound Capabilities –
    Soft Tissue, DVT
  • Digital X-ray

*Protocol, Sequences, and Advanced Services may differ by center location. Please contact your Diagnostic Imaging Specialist to verify if the desired imaging is available at your preferred location.

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