Ellison Building

The Department of Radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital performs approximately 500,000 examinations a year including 15,000 image guided therapeutic interventions.The Ellison and Charlestown MRI centers are equipped with 7 state of art General Electric 1.5 Excite scanners running the updated version 11.0x imaging platform. These scanners are equipped with full complement of coils allowing high resolution imaging of all body regions. A more complete description of the imaging capabilities is listed at the following website MGH Radiology web site.

Summary of the departmental imaging systems

Modality	Imaging Systems		Principal Uses
MRI	7	1.5T Whole Body	Clinical Diagnosis and Clinical Research
	1	3T Whole Body	Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Research, and Basic Research
	1	7T Whole Body	Clinical and Basic Research
	1	3T Head Only	Clinical Diagnosis and Clinical Research
	1	1.5T Whole Body
CT	1	64-Slice	Clinical Cardiac Research
	2	16-Slice	Clinical Diagnosis and Clinical Research
	1	8-Slice
	4	4-Slice
	1	Mobile Single Slice
	1	Single Slice
PET/CT	3	Whole Body	Clinical Research and Clinical Diagnosis
PET	1	Whole Body	Clinical Diagnosis and Clinical Research
Gamma Cameras	8	Dual Head	Clinical Diagnosis and Clinical Research (Nuclear Medicine and Nuclear Cardiology)
	2	Single Head
Fluoroscopy	10	Digital	Clinical Diagnosis and Clinical Research
Interventional Fluoroscopy	5	Biplanar	Clinical Intervention and Clinical Research
	1	Tilt C-Arm
	1	Single Plane
Mammography	1	Digital	Clinical Diagnosis
	10	Film
	1	Tomosynthesis System	Clinical Research
	1	Multimodal System (Optical, ultrasound and tomosynthesis)	Clinical and Basic Research
Ultrasound	5	Breast Imaging	Clinical Diagnosis and Clinical Research
	14	General Use
DEXA	2	Bone Density	Clinical Diagnosis
Radiotomography	2	Digital	Clinical Diagnosis
	1	Film
Radiography	13	Digital	Clinical Diagnosis
	5	Film