Department of Radiology

St. Mary's Hospital - 1st Floor

The Department of Radiology at St. Mary’s Hospital is a highly specialized, full-service department committed to offering its patients the highest quality care available. Many patients are unfamiliar with the different areas of Radiology and we hope this page will answer questions you may have. Clinical Radiologists, a group of 40 Radiologists based in Springfield, Illinois, provides physician coverage of the Radiology department. They provide 24 hour a day, 7 day a week coverage for all modalities. While Radiation Therapy is not a department of the hospital, those services are available on campus at St. Mary's Cancer Care Center.

• Nuclear Medicine
• Computed Tomography (CT)
• Ultrasound
• MRI
• Radiology

Nuclear Medicine Department
St. Mary's Hospital's Nuclear Medicine Department was the first downstate nuclear medicine department in Illinois. Nuclear Medicine procedures are widely used in the United States to test and treat patients. Highly skilled Licensed/Registered Technologists use special equipment along with radioactive materials to learn how certain organs function and to diagnose and determine the extent of certain diseases. An ADAC Vertex Plus MCD gamma camera is used for imaging heart disease, bone, liver, lungs, tumor studies etc. Our most recent acquisition in Nuclear Medicine includes sentinel node detection with Navigator imaging. We offer Miraluma breast imaging, for staging breast cancer and Molecular Coincidence Detection utilizing a radioactive glucose for tumor imaging.

St. Mary's Nuclear Medicine Department performs the following procedures:

• Bone Scans
• Bone Marrow Scans
• Gallium Scans
• Lung Scans
• Miraluma Breast Imagine
• Salivary Function Scans
• Sentinel Node Detection with Navigator Imagine
• Thyroid Scans
• CEA Scans
• Hepatobiliary Scans
• Gastric Emptying
• Heart Scans

• ADAC Vertex Plus MCD Gamma Camera
• ADAC Cardio Epic Camera

• Three full time technologists are on staff. Technologists are required to be registered by the A.R.R.T or C.N.M.T and be licensed in the state of Illinois.

• Monday - Friday 7:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
• Following routine hours there is a Technologist on call to provide Nuclear Medicine services as needed.
• After hours, images can be sent via teleradiology systems for a preliminary interpretation from a Radiologist.

For further information call: 217-464-7446.

CAT Scan

St. Mary's CAT Scan department performs the following:

• CT guided (biopsies, Aspirations, Paracentesis, Thoracentesis and Abscess Drainage Catheter Insertions)
• 3D, Sagittal and Coronal reconstructions
• CT of all body parts
• CT Angiograms of Neck, Circle of Willis, Aorta & Renal
• CT Chest to rule our pulmonary emboli
• CT Abdomen to rule out kidney stone. This is a non-invasive exam and replaces the Intravenous Pyelogram.
• CT Abdomen/Pelvis to rule out appendicitis.
• CT scan for Stealth procedure
• CT Cardiac Scoring

• Siemens Volume Zoom
• GE Cti

• 4 full time technologists. CT registry required.

• Monday-Friday - 7:00A.M. – 11:00P.M.
• Following routine hours there is a technologist on call to provide CT services as needed.
• After hours, all emergency or STAT images are sent via teleradiology for a preliminary interpretation from our radiologist.

Ultrasound

St. Mary's Ultrasound Department performs the following:

• Abdominal scanning
• OB/GYN scanning (includes transvaginal and Biophysical Profiles)
• Small Parts
• Vascular (includes carotids, venous and arterial)
• US guided; Biopsies, Amniocentesis, Aspirations, Paracentesis and thoracentesis.

The US Department is accredited by the ICAVL (Intersocietal Commission of Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories) for vascular examinations. US staff members are required to be registered by the ARDMS (American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers) and includes sonographers who have multi specialty registries and registered vascular technologists.

Equipment:

• The Ultrasound Department is comprised of 3 rooms. All rooms have identical Siemens Elegra Systems. Filming is done on a laser printer.
• An average of 580 examinations/month is performed in the department, with another 190 examinations/month performed at three (3) satellite areas.

• Monday through Friday, 7:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M., Saturday, 7:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.
• After these hours, a sonographer is on call to provide services as needed.

MRI
In February of 2006, St. Mary’s Hospital installed a Siemens Avanto with TIMS technology, 32 channels of RF and 76 surface coils making it the most technologically advanced 1.5T in central Illinois. In addition, our MRI is equipped with CINEMA-VISION goggles that allow patients to view television, DVD’s, or videotapes during their examination. It has proved to be very helpful for patients who have had difficulty with claustrophobia in the past. Children have also found comfort with the goggles, greatly reducing the need for sedation.

MRI Hours: Monday – Friday, 7:00a.m. – 8:00p.m.

For more information please call 464-7585.

Radiology
Diagnostic Radiology is a full-service department and includes: Fluoroscopy, Mammography, Interventional Radiology and General Radiography.

Radiologist coverage is provided by Clinical Radiologists of Springfield Illinois. This group consists of 40 Radiologists who provide coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

St. Mary's Radiology Department includes:

• Fluoroscopy
• Interventional Radiology
• Core Biopsies, Breast
• Stereotactic Breast Imagine
• General and Portable Radiography
• Mammography

Our Interventional equipment is located on 6th floor next to the Cath Lab. A fully digital Siemens Axiom Aristos FX was installed July 2005. One satellite facility, Fields Wright Medical Facility, is located in Sullivan, Illinois.

Equipment:

General Radiography:

• GE
• Picker
• Seimen’s
• Rad-View
• AMXPortable Units
• OEC C-Arms
• Zeihm Endoscopy C-Arm
• OEC Uroview Unit
• 2-DMR Mammography Units

• Newly installed in July 2005
• Seimen’s Digital Radiography: Seimen’s Aristos Axiom (first installation in Illinois)
• Kodak Computerized Radiography (installed March 2006)

Personnel:

• All technologists are registered with ARRT and licensed by the State of Illinois.
• Mammography technologists are certified and required to adhere to MQSA regulations. Our Mammography department is certified with the ACR and FDA via MQSA standards.

• Department is fully staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week