The Diagnostic Imaging service at MSPCA-Angell Boston supports the hospital’s specialty services by providing comprehensive, in-house diagnostic expertise and technology. The highly skilled team is well-equipped to handle all imaging needs, with board-certified radiologists and all modalities available seven days a week.
Services
- Contrast studies
- Barium studies of the intestinal tract (esophagram and upper GI series)
- Iodinated contrast to image the urinary tract (excretory urography, cystourethrography)
- Digital radiography
- Fine-needle aspirates and biopsies are performed under ultrasonographic, fluoroscopic, and CT guidance
- Fluoroscopy
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Multi-slice Computed Tomography (CT Scan)
- Nuclear Scintigraphy
- Bone scans to evaluate for lameness, including bone tumors
- Real-time GFR analysis for evaluation of renal function prior to nephrectomy
- Transplenic portosystemic shunt studies
- OFA hip and elbow exams
- Trans-splenic portal scintigraphy to evaluate for portosystemic shunts
- Thyroid analysis to evaluate our hyperthyroid patients or to evaluate for size and/or metastatic spread of thyroid cancer
- Ultrasound