Radiology Services

Information for Referring Health Care Providers

The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Radiology team works to provide you and your patient with an outstanding experience. Our radiologists guide all image acquisitions to ensure an accurate and complete examination for your patient. We invite you to learn about our services (below) and review the resources available to referring health care providers and how to make a referral.
 

Abdominal and Chest Imaging

Our team has extensive experience in imaging routine and complicated abdominal and chest cases.  We produce high resolution images on both the 3T MRI and High-Speed CT.
 
Our personalized, radiation-free, high-resolution, anatomic and functional MRI exams can be done on the:

Liver Biliary Bowel

Kidney/bladder Female reproductive tract

Our team also uses MRI to assess iron quantification. This method is non-invasive and extremely safe.
 

Musculoskeletal Imaging

Musculoskeletal imaging is done using a 3T MRI. Our services include:

• Extensive diagnostic and therapeutic arthrogram options
• Volumetric joint imaging with 3D highlighting
• RF ablation procedures for mass/tumor removal

Cardiac Imaging

Our pediatric radiologists have over a decade of clinical experience imaging cardiac patients from birth to adulthood. Our team works closely with the Children’s Heart Center to ensure cardiac patients’ complex care needs are met during radiology exams. This includes care from one of our pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists.
 
We use 3T MRI and High-Speed CT to effectively diagnose:

Coronary anomalies and diseases Anomalies of the great arteries Myocardial functional assessment Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia

Complex structural heart diseases Evaluation of surgical repairs Iron quantification

Neuroradiology

Patients who require neuroradiology imaging benefit from our 30 years of experience in the field. We provide superior image quality and increased diagnostic capabilities through:

• 3T MRI imaging
• Low-dose radiation protocols for high-speed CT examinations
• Extensive clinical integration of:
  • Perfusion imaging
  • Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)
  • Spectroscopy
  • Functional MRI (fMRI)

We can perform routine imaging applications for:

Chemical/metabolic analysis Blood flow mapping

Neural connectivity Pre-surgical evaluations for tumors, vascular anomalies and epilepsy