Greetings

Since the new hospital opened in 2001, Kitano Hospital's Diagnostic Radiology Department has repeatedly upgraded and updated its imaging equipment, including CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, and angiography, as well as its image processing devices, to ensure that it can provide the latest equipment possible to patients and referring physicians. In 2011, it opened a nearby diagnostic imaging clinic, and has taken care to ensure that necessary imaging tests are performed without waiting, and to avoid relying on other facilities whenever possible. With the construction of the new building, we will maintain this policy, planning the design of the department and revising it if necessary, so that we can provide the highest quality images possible as quickly as possible.
We have established and will maintain a system in which many excellent radiologists, primarily from the Kyoto University Department of Diagnostic Imaging, participate in the reporting of individual image interpretation results and the creation of diagnostic reports, providing appropriate initial reports as quickly as possible and providing further appropriate interpretations whenever the opportunity arises.
As a medical procedure, it is possible to receive, interpret, store, and manage patient image data from local medical facilities and even from wider medical areas. As a diagnostic radiologist, I would like to handle this from the patient's perspective.
The impact of AI (artificial intelligence) will be considered in all fields of medicine in the future. Some say that diagnostic radiologists will be the profession most affected. However, since medicine is for people (patients), it is essential that people (doctors and other medical staff) master the use of AI as a medical device and provide appropriate medical care. The goal of all staff in our department is to be a group of diagnostic radiologists who can do this in all aspects of medical image handling.

Characteristics and Initiatives

1. We maintain close contact with doctors in each department and the radiological technologists who perform the imaging, striving to image the appropriate areas at the appropriate time using the appropriate methods and imaging protocols.
2. We all strive to provide diagnostic imaging reports as quickly, appropriately, and clearly as possible.
3. In order to improve the quality of diagnostic imaging reports, we actively participate in and contribute to academic activities such as conferences with other departments, discussion meetings within the Department of Radiology, collaboration with the Department of Diagnostic Imaging at Kyoto University, and the Radiological Society of Japan.

About the inspection

• General radiography examination
• X-ray CT scan
• MRI scan
• Transparent table
• Scintigraphy
• Bone mineral quantification

Medical treatment results (number of findings reports created)