CT scanning combines special x-ray equipment with sophisticated computers to produce multiple images or pictures of the inside of the body. These cross-sectional images of the area being studied can then be examined on a computer monitor or printed.

CT scans of internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood vessels provide greater clarity and reveal more details than regular x-ray exams.

Chemotherapy

What is Chemo?

Chemotherapy, or chemo for short, means taking certain types of drugs to treat cancer. You might take these drugs before or after cancer surgery. You might take them with radiation (x-ray) treatment. Or you might take chemo alone.

Chemo has been helping people beat cancer since the early 1950s. The chemo drugs your doctor uses have been tested again and again. Research shows they work. Partly because of chemo, many people with cancer can have full, healthy lives.

Echocardiogram (Echo)

An echocardiogram (often called "echo") is a graphic outline of the heart's movement. During this test, high-frequency sound waves, called ultrasound, provide pictures of the heart's valves and chambers.

This allows the technician, called a sonographer, to evaluate the pumping action of the heart. Echo is often combined with Doppler ultrasound and color Doppler to evaluate blood flow across the heart's valves.

Electrocardiogram (EKG) / Stress Test / Holter Monitor

What is an electrocardiogram?

An electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), is a measurement of the electrical activity of the heart.

By placing electrodes at specific locations on the body (chest, arms, and legs), a graphic representation, or tracing, of the electrical activity can be obtained. Changes in an ECG from the normal tracing can indicate one or more of several heart-related conditions. Conditions that are not heart conditions may also cause changes in the ECG.

Electrophysiology

Cardiac electrophysiology is the science of diagnosing and treating the electrical activities of the heart.

These studies are performed to assess complex arrhythmias, evaluate abnormal electrocardiograms, assess risk of developing arrhythmias in the future, and design treatment. These procedures increasingly include therapeutic methods in addition to diagnostic and prognostic procedures.

Endoscopy

Endoscopy is used to inspect the interior surfaces of an organ by inserting a tube into the body. The instrument may have a rigid or flexible tube and not only provides an image for visual inspection and photography, but also enables the taking of biopsies and retrieval of foreign objects.

Nuclear Medicine

Nuclear medicine is a branch of medical imaging that uses small amounts of radioactive material to diagnose or treat a variety of diseases, including many types of cancers, heart disease and certain other abnormalities within the body.

Nuclear medicine procedures are noninvasive and usually painless medical tests that help physicians diagnose medical conditions.

Sleep Studies

Sleep studies are tests that moniter what happens to your body during sleep. The studies are done to find out what is causing your sleep problems.

Sleep studies can also determine whether you have a problem with your stages of sleep. The two stages of sleep are non-rapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM). Normally, NREM and REM alternate 4 to 5 times during a night's sleep. A change in this cycle may make it hard for you to sleep soundly.

Vascular Ultrasound

Ultrasound imaging is a noninvasive medical test that helps physicians diagnose and treat medical conditions.

It involves exposing part of the body to high-frequency sound waves to produce pictures of the inside of the body.

Because ultrasound images are captured in real-time, they can show the structure and movement of the body's internal organs, as well as blood flowing through blood vessels.

Vascular ultrasound provides pictures of the body's veins and arteries.