Introduction
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Introduction
The Department started functioning in 1983 with help of x-ray and mammography unit. It developed gradually. Today, the department, along with NCI Jhajjar has 3 CT machines, 1 MRI, 2 DSA, 2 mammography units with digital breast Tomosynthesis and Contrast enhanced mammography, in addition to numerous ultrasound and radiography units, including fluoroscopy and portable radiography. The department provides services to inpatients and outpatients of BRA-IRCH and NCI Jhajjar
|
Equipment |
BRA-IRCH |
NCI Jhajjar |
|
CT |
1 |
2 |
|
MRI |
0 |
1 +1 (in process) |
|
DSA |
1 |
1 |
Services
The department provides diagnostic as well as interventional radiology services to cancer patients. Diagnostic CT scans, MRI, Ultrasound, Xray, Mammography are performed. Interventional procedures include biopsy and fine needle aspiration cytology under CT, Ultrasound and mammography guidance, percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage, percutaneous nephrostomy, transarterial angioembolisation, Nerve blocks for pain relief, NG tube insertion, percutaneous gastrostomy, tumor ablative proVacuum assisted biopsy, clip placement and wire localisation of breast masses and vascular procedures such as peripherally inserted central line catheter and angioembolisation procedures.
The department boasts of turn-around report times of 24 hours. Dates for routine imaging (CT and Ultrasound) of all in-patients are given the next working day.
