Neuroradiology Fellowship
Facilities
OHSU maintains two 1.5 Tesla GE MR scanners, two Philips 3 Tesla scanners,
including state-of-the-art echo-planar imaging, MR spectroscopy, fiberoptic
networking, as well as a Philips 1.5 T scanner with the same capabilities, housed at
the adjacent VA hospital. In addition, one Philips 64 and two 16 multidetector CT
scanners and one 4 detector CT scanner, Philips Biplane digital and OEC intraoperative
angiographic units, doppler, intraoperative and transcranial ultrasound, SPECT, PET
and MR spectroscopy are used for clinical examinations.
The neuroradiology reading room is equipped with five PACS workstations for
reviewing and dictating scans. Image processing workstations including GE,
Philips, and Terarecon are available for image analysis, perfusion and functional
MR imaging processing
Aside from the extensive resources available in the OHSU library, Diagnostic
Radiology maintains a library of over 700 books along with 130 bound journals and
14 current journal subscriptions for use by the radiology residents and fellows.
Other resources include Internet access as well as the neuroradiology teaching
files, containing over 500 hard copy and digital cases.
OHSU provides ample opportunity for direct neuroradiology research and
collaborative research with the clinical neurological subspecialties. There is
space dedicated to departmental research including the Radiology Imaging Research
Laboratory, primarily focused on MR research. A university-wide animal surgery
and care facility is available for animal experimentation with three veterinarians
employed full time. The Dotter Interventional Institute research facilities are
also available for neuroangiographic and neurointerventional research with two
animal labs equipped with angiographic units. A magnetic resonance Ph.D. physicist
is employed full-time on staff and the Diagnostic Radiology department has an
additional neuroradiologist as the Director of MRI Research.
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