The Choice is Clear

At Doctors Medical Center, we provide an extensive range of advanced digital imaging services – all right here, close to your home. Our hospital is home to some of the latest available digital imaging technology, allowing our staff to provide your doctor with clearer images and diagnoses while maximizing your comfort and level of quality care. 

When it comes to your health, you deserve access to compassionate, high quality, technologically advanced care. Read on to see why Doctors Medical Center offers some of the best, state-of-the-art imaging services.

Staying Connected to Your Health

In today’s medical environment, time is of the essence. Doctors Medical Center strives to bring some of the best, state-of-the-art imaging services to our community. That’s why we’ve established an all-digital radiological viewing environment. No X-ray film. No more packages transferred between our testing facility and your physician. And more importantly, no time wasted before you or your family member receives a diagnosis and treatment begins.

It’s important for your physician to stay connected to your health, and it’s now possible for your physician to securely access your images around the clock with just a mouse click. Our initiation of the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) has put Doctors Medical Center at the forefront of teleradiology, with the ability to quickly and easily store, retrieve, distribute and present images whenever and wherever they are requested. Through the physician portal, your doctor can have secure, password-protected online access to diagnostic images and can share test results with you or your family member in a more comfortable, private office setting.

Among Those Leading the Way with the Latest Technology

At Doctors Medical Center, our commitment to advanced imaging technology is evidenced by an equipment list that rivals many large and notable hospitals in the country. Of course, the required basics are here, but there are also machines that go beyond the everyday need.

A Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reads pathological or other physiological changes of living tissues, and is particularly useful in neurological, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and oncological imaging. The MRI equipment’s magnetic field strength helps facilitate quicker and more accurate reads – the stronger the magnet, the higher the resolution. Our MRI has a magnetic field strength of 1.5 teslas, a level that produces thorough results.

Our 64-Slice CT Scanner combines image quality with high speed. It can produce high-resolution, three-dimensional images of an organ in a few seconds, including 3-D views of the blood vessels. With this technology, our cardiac patients benefit from a less invasive procedure, while our physicians can obtain a more accurate visualization of the entire coronary tree. In addition, it aids our oncologists in diagnosing many different cancers, since the image allows a physician to verify the presence of a tumor and measure its size, exact location and the extent of the tumor's proximity with other nearby tissue. And our surgeons can rely upon the high accuracy and detailed visualization of the 64-Slice CT Scanner for their surgical patients.

Our Intra-Operative O-arm™ Imaging System delivers multi-dimensional imaging during surgery, providing surgeons with real-time, 3-D images as well as multi-plane, 2-D and fluoroscopic imaging. Physicians get a better view of the anatomy on which they are operating – while they’re performing delicate surgeries.

The Stealth System, developed to work alone or interfaced with the O-arm™, generates area-specific, detailed images of surgical targets to enable physicians to precisely focus their efforts. This is yet another example of our commitment to providing our surgeons with access to emerging medical technologies in order to provide patients with high-quality, specialized medical care.

Interventional Radiology

Although the life-saving potential of interventional radiology has been widely discussed, some hospitals are not willing to invest so heavily in specialized equipment for the percent of the radiology department patient load this service represents. At Doctors Medical Center, we believe that every opportunity to save a life is worth whatever it takes.

Doctors Medical Center’s commitment to this specialty is demonstrated through the level of equipment in-house to perform both diagnostic and treatment procedures. Using image guidance, our board-certified radiologists maneuver instruments through the body to conduct a variety of important procedures.

• Chemoembolization delivers cancer treatment directly to a tumor through its blood supply
• Abscess drainage and the placement of tubes where needed to drain fluids
• Embolization blocks abnormal blood flow or abnormal organ function, including uterine artery embolization to treat fibroid tumors in the uterus
• Thrombolysis to dissolve blood clots
• Biopsies
• Radiofrequency ablation for localized destruction of tumors
• Venous access management, the insertion and management of specialized intravenous devices, including PICC lines, Hickman lines, subcutaneous ports, etc.
• Vena cava filter placement is designed to prevent the spread of deep venous thrombus (blood clot in the legs)
• Vertebroplasty, a minimally-invasive procedure designed to strengthen a fractured or broken vertebra, the small bones that make up the spinal column
• Diagnosis and treatment of peripheral vascular disease, which is any disease or disorder of the circulatory system outside of the brain and heart
• Arterial and venous angioplasty and stenting
• Arterial stent graft placement   
• Arterial embolization
• Carotid artery stenting
• TIPS, which is the placement of a Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt to help manage patients with end-stage liver disease and portal hypertension  

Nuclear Services  

Nuclear medicine uses injected or ingested radioactive isotopes to diagnose and treat diseases, and is especially useful in cancer and cardiac care. Doctors Medical Center has modern equipment and offers an extensive range of nuclear services.

The MIBG scan is used to diagnose and treat neuroendocrine tumors, a rare type of cancer that can arise in different parts of the body and release excess amounts of various hormones.

Prostascint scans pinpoint and stage tumors of the prostate gland.

Radioimmunotherapy pinpoints and treats tumors in patients with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

A full-body I-131 scan is used to detect cancerous thyroid glands after a physical exam has indicated their possible presence. If a tumor is found and a biopsy confirms the need for surgery, the isotope is used after the thyroid gland has been removed to pinpoint and treat any residues left by the cancer.

A full-body bone scan follows treatment for lung, breast or prostate cancer, to detect whether the cancer has spread.

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) scans diagnose different kinds of dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease, Pick’s disease and multi-infarct dementia, and also detect coronary artery disease. This scan can help diagnose heart disease in women. The SPECT scan is also ordered by cardiologists to measure the comparative risks of invasive versus non-invasive treatment options for heart disease.  

Rx for a Healthy Community  

Modesto is our home and community involvement is a natural extension of what we do here. That’s why we offer free or low-cost public education, support and wellness programs. Our goal is to keep our neighbors healthy through information and good habits, as well as early diagnosis and treatment of disease. To find an event or learn more, visit DMC-Modesto.com.  

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