Mercy Medical Center offers a full menu of Radiology Services. Imaging procedures are reviewed by six Radiologists officed at the hospital radiology department. The radiology department offers services on a 24 hour - 7 days per week basis. Scheduling and staffing are managed for your convenience with minimal waiting times.

Radiology Division services are available through the following departments:
• General Radiology
• Nuclear Medicine
• Ultrasound
• Mammography
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Computed Tomagraphy (CT)
• Invasive Radiology
• Uterine Artery Embolization
Diagnostic procedures are also performed by Cardiologists in the radiology Cardiac Cath Lab.

Mercy Medical Center has one of only a few hundred CAT scanners in the nation capable of 64 slice high-speed images. Most scanners in the US are the old fashion single slice design. This state of the art 64 slice CT scanner assures less radiation exposure for you than other scanners as well as superior imaging for your physician. Another benefit of this scanner is that most procedures take only a few minutes and you don’t have to hold your breath as long! Rapid Cat scans and other radiological procedures support the outstanding Mercy emergency department around the clock. The CAT (CT) scanner and other advanced radiological equipment frequently allows physicians to quickly look inside your body to evaluate your source of pain or extent of injury or disease without exploratory surgery.

Virtual colonoscopy by CT scanner is now available at Mercy. Virtual colonoscopy allows diagnostic viewing of the colon for patients who refuse to undergo or are too fragile to survive invasive conventional colon screening exams.

One of the newest additions to Mercy’s Radiology Services is state-of-the-art PET (or positron emission tomography) technology. PET is a medical imaging tool which assists physicians in detecting disease. Simply stated, PET scans produce digital pictures that can, in many cases, identify many forms of cancer, damaged heart tissue, and brain disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and epilepsy. Technically, PET is a medical imaging technology that images the biology of disorders at the molecular level before anatomical changes are visible.

A PET scan is very different from an ultrasound, X-ray, MRI, or CT, which detect changes in the body structure or anatomy, such as a lesion (for example, a sizeable tumor) or musculoskeletal injury. A PET scan can distinguish between benign and malignant disorders (or between alive and dead tissue), unlike other imaging technologies which merely confirm the presence of a mass.

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Mercy’s Radiology Services are state of the art, quick, and as good as any in the nation.