Diagnostic Imaging

Diagnostic Imaging, often known as radiology or x-ray, covers a range of imaging or scanning tests that help with diagnosis and treatment.

Professionals, known as radiographers, obtain these images or scans using highly specialised scanners, and medical specialists called radiologists read the images.

Please see a list below of some of our services:

• Ultrasound
• CT (Computed Tomography)
• MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
• Nuclear Medicine -  a small amount of radioactivity is injected into the patient, rather than the patient being exposed to X-rays.
• Mammography
• Fluoroscopy
• Interventional radiology - uses imaging as a guide to perform a therapeutic procedure, usually one which is minimally invasive (keyhole or pinhole, rather than open, surgery).

The department is split between X-ray and scanning, primarily for outpatients, and the Radiology Day Case Unit (RDCU) which is for inpatients and interventional procedures.

We are an accredited training department for both radiologists and radiographers as well as a teaching hospital so there may be students present/undertaking examinations.

For appointments or day case procedures please ensure you read your appointment letter to find your required department, it will be either RDCU, X-ray and Scanning, Nuclear Medicine or Paediatric X-ray, Mammography.