Radiology

The Radiology Department operates as both an inpatient and outpatient imaging center and offers a variety of state-of-the-art imaging services and to meet your diagnostic needs including:

Computed Tomography (CT or CAT Scan):
CT scans reveal both bone and soft tissues, including organs, muscles, and tumors. Image tones can be adjusted to highlight tissues of similar density, and, through graphics software, the data from multiple cross-sections can be assembled into 3-D images. CT aids diagnosis and surgery or other treatment, including radiation therapy, in which effective dosage is highly dependent on the precise density, size, and location of a tumor.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI):
MRI uses a non-radiation imaging technique to produce high-quality images of bones, soft tissues, and hard tissues primarily of the brain, spine and joints. Patients with a herniated disk, spinal cord compression, suspected brain tumors, and malignancies, suspected vessel blockage in the brain and neck, sports injuries and difficulties with joints in the knee, elbow, as well as wrists, ankles and feet all benefit from MRI technology. The department’s new High Definition 1.5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging magnet provides exceptional image quality for physicians and allows patients to spend less time having their MRI procedure. 

Nuclear Medicine:
Nuclear Medicine uses radiation to produce digitized image of a particular organ and to provide real-time visuals of biochemical processes.

Positron Emission Tomography (PET scan):
At Florida Hospital DeLand, we offer state-of-the-art PET/CT scans that combine PET and Spiral CT technologies into one single exam. The PET exam pinpoints cell activity, and the CT exam provides the exact anatomic location within the body. With a PET/CT, the nuclear medicine radiologist can in most cases, determine in just one imaging session: • Whether a mass is malignant or benign • Whether treatment is working and • Where tumors are located throughout the body