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Department of Medical Imaging
Last Update: 02 Jul 2011 11:56 AM

The Medical Imaging Department mission is to provide the finest diagnostic and intervention imaging service to the eligible National Guard Health Affair Patients and Physicians. The highest caliber imaging service will be provided, within budgetary restraints in a modern, patient friendly atmosphere utilizing state of art equipment. The department will provide a work environment that is pleasant and safe, and affords dignity and respect for all. The department is totally committed to improvement of standards and to committing sufficient resources into continuing education, audit and research.


The department of imaging at NGHA is the premier and largest imaging facility in the Middle East and is built upon a system of competence, teamwork, and innovation and provides the finest diagnostic and intervention imaging service to the eligible National Guard Health Affair patients, and physicians.

The department is totally committed to improvement of standards and to committing resources into continuing education, audit and research. The radiology team is composed of board-certified radiologists from prestigious international institutions who represent every specialty and subspecialty of radiology from Neuroradiology, Siamese twin separation radiology, cardiac radiology and interventional angiography to trauma and women’s imaging. Over 100 technologists and allied science personal trained to international standards are employed.

Services
The department conducts several procedures some of which:

Intervention

  • Radiofrequency Ablation of Osteiod Osteoma
  • Fallopian Tube re-canalization for infertility
  • Coil embolization of cerebral artery aneurysms
  • Coil embolization head and neck arterio-venous malformations
  • Thrombolysis for strokes
  • Vertebroplasty for osteoporotic and metastatic fractures
  • Colonic Stenting
  • Tracheal Stenting

Computed Tomography

  • Virtual colonoscopy
  • Carotid CT Angiography
  • Cardiac CT
  • CT Venography

MRI

  • Perfusion brain imaging
  • ADC mapping
  • Spectroscopy

Nuclear Medicine

  • FDG SPECT
  • In 111-Octreotide for neuroendocrine tumours
  • MIBG for neuroendocrine tumours

Musculoskeletal Radiology Intervention and Therapy

  • Hip injections
  • Subtalar Injection Block
  • Knee injection
  • Epidural Injection
  • Sacro iliac joint injection
  • Shoulder injection
  • Greater trochanteric bursitis therapeutic injections
  • Lesser trochanteric bursitis therapeutic injections
  • Gangrene injection
  • Bone biopsy and Spine biopsy under CT guidance
  • Soft Tissue Biopsy

Staff: 

(A) Chairman: Dr. Ali Al Wabel

  • Dr. Abdullah Hussain Al Mulla
  • Dr. Dorothy Makanjuola
  • Dr. Mikael Bengt Erik Sylve'n
  • Dr. Mohammed  Al Moaiqel
  • Dr. Hussain Jawad
  • Dr. Hesham Mohammed Shaalan
  • Dr. Riyadh Nassir Al Okaili
  • Dr. Mohammed Jasmin Salman
  • Dr. Saeed Saleh Emam Mohamed
  • Dr. Fahad Ogla Al Kubaidan
  • Dr. Sara Al Ghanem
  • Dr. Talaat Mohammed Youssef
  • Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Syed
  • Dr. Humayun Bashir
  • Dr. Maha Siddique Nojoom
  • Dr. Ghassan Al Maziad

Contact us:
Phone number: +966 1 80 11111 ext: 11383


 

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