Advanced radiology & imaging experts

The testing center delivers the most advanced imaging and treatment options and emerging technologies in breast health, cancer care, and diagnostic imaging to our patients, including:

• Cardiodiagnostics
• CT
• X-ray
• MRI
• PET/CT
• Nuclear medicine
• Pulmonary function
• Lab services
• Ultrasound

Learn more about the testing center.

Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital has built a progressive radiology and diagnostic imaging program to assist you and your doctor in learning about your health and making the best medical decisions possible.

• Computed tomography (CT scan)
• X-ray
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• PET/CT imaging
• Ultrasound
• Nuclear medicine
• 3D mammography

Advocate Good Shepherd interventional radiologists perform minimally invasive procedures using image-guided techniques. Because these techniques are less invasive than those used in traditional open surgery, recovery time often is faster and patients can experience less pain and fewer complications.

Benefits of interventional radiology:

• Minimally invasive alternative to surgery
• Performed to diagnose and treat a wide variety of conditions
• Uses targeted treatment, reducing trauma to the body
• Faster recovery times
• Reduces pain and chance of complications

Conditions we treat

Many of the conditions now treated with interventional radiology traditionally had been treated with more invasive procedures, such as open surgery. Conditions treated by Advocate Good Shepherd interventional radiologists include:

Minimally invasive procedures

Unlike traditional surgery, minimally invasive procedures use imaging guidance for the insertion of a needle to deliver treatment precisely where needed. This technique may be used to perform biopsies, inject drugs, or burn or freeze tumors. Sometimes a catheter is inserted to drain fluid or to perform a procedure to open blocked arteries. Minimally invasive procedures performed by Advocate Good Shepherd interventional radiologists include: