The Department of Imaging and Radio-diagnosis in BMCH is a specialized and a highly equipped unit providing state of the art services to the patients. The main aim is to practice a good clinical radiology with the help of various imaging modalities ranging from the very basic conventional radiography to few of the very advanced techniques like MR spectroscopy, perfusion MRI, Diffusion TENSOR imaging, MDCT investigations etc, thus helping the clinicians in all possible ways to reach to accurate diagnosis.

The department is equipped with the recent most version PACS and shortly awaiting tele-radiology. In spite of all these recent advances, adequate importance is given to the conventional radiology with a fully functioning dark room available in the department for emergency and teaching purposes.

Department is equipped with 3 X-ray units with conventional and video fluoroscopy integrated with the CR system along with 8 portable X-ray machines.

CR system: with 24 CR cassettes, two dry view cameras, two laser printers, and X-ray film digitalizer.
PACS – System: The images captured on CR system are easily made available within a few minutes, to the clinician on their personal computers, about 75 in number, located in OPD, Wards, OT and casualty etc.

This has grossly reduced the waiting period for image viewing and hence faster patient disposal. The reports too are pushed through HIS coupled with RIS.

Additional advantages areno film loss, far better image quality, no need to physically store the images. Easy to maintain the records on large memory devices and equally easier to archive the images within a short time of afew seconds.

Whole of this system has made our department as a filmless department. Image prints are given on request either on CD or laser prints at nominal charges.