Radiology Services are provided 24/7 by Registered Technologists.

The Chatham Radiologists Group based in Savannah Georgia provides Evans Memorial Hospital with exceptional radiology interpretation.

The Radiologists are Board Certified by the American College of Radiology and are available 24/7 either at the hospital or via PACS to view images and provide interpretation for the attending physicians.

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The department is staffed with Registered Technologists 24/7 who are graduates of accredited imaging schools.

Imaging Services provided include:

Routine Radiology
Bone Density
CT Scanning
Nuclear Medicine
Ultrasound
MRI
Mammography
C-ARM
Picture Archival and Communications (PACS)
IMEX Segmental Pressures for Vascular Assessment

Evans Memorial Hospital was one of the first hospitals in the area to install PACS which provides the Radiologists, the attending Physicians and other hospitals with images over a computer based system from anywhere in the world. This provides the hospital with the ability to provide patients exams to physicians anywhere that the patient needs them. Also, this allows specialists in other cities or even states to view the images via the WEB with a controlled password.

The technical staff is all registered by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists or the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers.

Mammography is performed on a scheduled basis with a GE DMR mammography unit. The radiologists with the Chatham Radiologists Group, who read for the Women's Telfair Hospital at Candler Hospital, interpret the mammograms. Pictured here are Tammie Eason, Shelly Kicklighter, Wendy Boatright and Angie Smiley who provide mammography services for Evans Memorial Hospital. An important addition to the mammography services is that EMH provides a "Soft Mammogram" which means that the discomfort is significantly reduced without a reduction in image quality. The mammography department is certified by the FDA under the MSQA program.

MRI is provided with an Open Magnet from Toshiba. The open architecture of the OPART system provides much more comfort for the patient and reduces stress of being closed in for those with claustrophobia. The OPART MRI, pictured below, provides MRI and MRA images which provide unique images for the physicians to diagnose various soft tissue injuries and provide the physician with images of the brain, spine, joints and other organs that are truly exceptional.

 Evans Memorial Hospital now has one of the fastest and most advanced CT Scanners available anywhere in the world – The 64 Slice Toshiba Aquilion CT Scanner.

Evans Memorial Hospital provides CT Scanning with a Toshiba 64 Slice Aquilion CT Scanner. This scanner is the latest technology available and has the smallest slice available for any scanner anywhere acquiring 64 slices in just 4 tenths of one second or 160 slices per second.

Leading technology with a patient care focus
The Aquilion 64 is a 64-slice CT scanner built on Toshiba's unique 64-row Quantum Detector, volumetric imaging capabilities and advanced software applications, and is the world’s only true volumetric 64-slice CT scanner with 64 detector channels, 3-D cone beam algorithms and volume reconstruction. Its superior design produces high-speed, high-resolution imaging with low-contrast resolution that’s unsurpassed even at low doses.

• The Quantum Detector enables the acquisition of 64 simultaneous slices of 0.5mm—the thinnest available, with each 350-millisecond gantry revolution

• The result is precise isotropic imaging of any region of the body during a breath-hold under ten seconds

The heart of the Aquillion 64 slice scanner is its superior multi-detector design, that produces high-speed, high resolution imaging with the best low contrast resolution of any scanner and at the lowest patient dose for any CT Scanner. The Quantum detector enables the Aquilion CT scanner to acquire 64 simultaneous slices of 0.5 mm with each 400 millisecond gantry rotation. The result is precise isotropic imaging of any region of the body during a breath-hold of under ten seconds. Only Toshiba's CT technology offers true isotropic voxels, which greatly enhance most clinical studies, including examinations of the lungs, joints, extremities and CT angiography.

You can go to a bigger hospital, but you can not find a better scanner. In fact many much larger hospitals still having 16 slice or smaller scanners that do not have the imaging quality of the

The Ultrasound Department includes a new Toshiba Apllio scanner which Evans Memorials Technologists use to perform Abdominal, Breast, Thyroid, OB/GYN, and full Vascular Services. Included in the vascular services are IMEX studies which provide information on arterial blood flow and a diagnosis of Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) which can give an indication of coronary artery disease.

Nuclear Medicine is performed on a Toshiba Scanner. Pictured here are Debbie Hutto and Angie Smiley. The nuclear medicine department performs a full range of nuclear medicine services including Nuclear Cardiology.

Bone Density is performed in-house on a Hologic Bone Density Unit. This is the same unit used at the Emory Clinic in Atlanta.

In surgery EMH has a Philips Libra C-Arm which provides live images to the surgeon.