Diagnostic Imaging Center
At Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center, we strive to provide you with the best imaging care in the area. Our dedicated and highly trained staff will assure that they provide you with safe, compassionate and comfortable care.
We have added extra comfort touches such as our larger opening MRI scanner with relaxing music, multiple CT scanners for faster imaging and free soft comfort pads to make mammography a little easier. Our Diagnostic team is focused on providing excellent customer care, from the technologists and sonographers to our board certified radiologists that are available 24/7 to interpret your exams.
Diagnostic Imaging Services Include:
Our One Call Scheduling Department 863-419-2270 is always ready to schedule your appointment, at your convenience.
Extended Coverage
We understand that most people work during the week days and it’s often a challenge to get an appointment to fit into your busy schedule. We also know that when you’re faced with a potential health issue, you and your physician want answers fast. That is why, as part of Heart of Florida’s commitment to incredible service, the Diagnostic Imaging Department has extended our MRI/CT/X-ray coverage from 8:00am – 8:00pm Monday through Friday with Saturday appointments available upon request. One Call Scheduling makes scheduling your appointment even easier. Simply call 863-419-2270 and we’ll take care of everything else.
Our CT scanners produces fast, multi-dimensional, detailed images of the brain, heart, spine, blood vessels, and all other body areas such as the abdomen, pelvis and joints. Contrast media can be used to further enhance images.
Positron Emission Tomography/Computer Tomography (PET/CT) are two technologies that are used together to help pinpoint the location of cancers, and to determine what stage they are in for the most effective treatment planning. These scans use a small amount of nuclear medicine taken into the body, which gathers in the organ or area of the body being examined. The energy emitted by the nuclear medicine is detected by a PET scanner to produce special pictures. These pictures are then superimposed over Computer Tomography scans to produce special views leading to more precise and accurate diagnoses.
At Heart of Florida we’ve made imaging tests more comfortable and pleasant. We’ve added extra-comfort touches, such as a larger opening MRI scanner, softer lighting and music. Our 1.5 Tesla strength magnet is one of the most powerful and sensitive tools, but a painless exam that creates high quality thin-section images of any part of the body, including the arteries and veins, from any angle and direction, without surgical invasion and in a relatively short period of time.
The images are sent to computer work stations within the medical center for viewing by our radiologists and can be sent to your physicians office for viewing.
For those who have difficulties completing an MRI, we offer sedation on specific days. Please talk with us about this service and availability.
Nuclear Medicine is unique because it shows how the organs and tissues are functioning. Our modern dual head camera is used for precise whole body and cardiac imaging. Exams are reviewed by our radiologists and/or cardiologists daily.
Ultrasound technology utilizes high frequency sound waves to obtain images of internal structures within the body. Although the exam is most commonly associated with fetal imaging during pregnancy, ultrasound is used for a variety of purposes, including vascular and breast imaging.
We use the latest digital equipment to produce your x-ray exams. Digital capability results in you spending less time at the facility and the ability to store and make compact discs (CD) for your physician’s review.
Interventional Radiology (abbreviated IR or sometimes VIR for vascular and interventional radiology) is a subspecialty of radiology in which minimally invasive procedures are performed using image guidance. Some of these procedures are done for diagnostic purposes while others are done as treatments. Images are used to guide tiny instruments like catheters through the blood vessels or other pathways to precise locations in the body. Interventional procedures often replace surgical procedures, and usually don’t require general anesthesia, which reduces recovery time.
We’ve taken the routine out of routine care by making our women’s services even better. We’ve added the region’s latest digital mammography technology to our women’s services. This means our mammograms are faster, provide more detailed images, require fewer total exposures and eliminate the time needed to develop films. This allows us to get results to your physician more quickly. And our computer-aided detection (CAD) system further enhances your mammogram, identifying areas of potential concern so that Radiologists can determine if there is a need for additional imaging tests or a biopsy.
For greater comfort, Heart of Florida’s Radiology Department uses FDA-approved MammoPads®. These soft foam pads help ease the discomfort some women feel during the compression necessary for a quality image.
We offer the ability to get both your mammogram and bone density screenings during the same visit, with the low wait times you’ve come to expect.
We also offer Stereotactic Breast Biopsies, which involve the use of a needle, rather than a large incision, to biopsy suspicious lesions in the breast. This form of biopsy eliminates the need for certain surgical biopsies resulting in less anesthesia and less time out of work. In addition, Heart of Florida's Stereotactic Breast Biopsy is done using our new digital technology, making it quicker and more accurate than the standard film x-rays used in the past.
We provide bone densitometry which uses x-rays to measure how many grams of calcium and other bone minerals are packed into a segment of bone. Doctors use this test to determine if you have, or are at risk of osteoporosis.
For additional information about radiology studies, please visit www.radiologyinfo.org.