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offers
state-of-the-art imaging facilities and equipment and
a team of highly qualified radiologists, specializing
in traditional diagnostic radiology and the most advanced
interventional radiological procedures.
In 2003, Monmouth Medical Center became the
first hospital in New Jersey to gain accreditation
from the American College of Radiology that recognizes
the safety and appropriateness of its computed tomography
(CT) scan use.
Through this achievement, Monmouth joined just
60 hospitals nationwide that have achieved this accreditation,
which was developed by the American College of Radiology
(ACR) out of concerns about the excessive use of CT procedures,
as well as in response to the widespread report of excessive
radiation doses in pediatric CT procedures. The ACR implemented
this new CT accreditation program in late 2002 to evaluate
facilities in several categories, including the qualifications
of the radiologists, technologists, and physicists, equipment
performance, effectiveness of quality control programs and
quality of clinical images and radiation doses.
Monmouth
also was the first hospital in Monmouth County to offer the
latest in Dexa scan imaging — a
procedure used in assessing bone mineral density for the
detection of osteoporosis — and digital chest radiography,
which produces improved images and reduces radiation exposure
to patients. The department is equipped with the most-advanced
computed tomography (CT) imaging system, providing the area’s
first coronary scoring program for the early detection of
heart disease, as well as the state of the art in magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) scanning technologies. And in another
diagnostic breakthrough, Monmouth has established the region’s
only colorectal physiology center for diseases and disorders
of the colon, rectum and anus.
The department's cutting-edge angiographic
suite is used to perform diagnostic procedures such as cerebral,
abdominal and peripheral angiography. Monmouth was the first
hospital in the state to introduce a nuclear medicine department,
fully equipped with Gamma cameras, Spect cameras and computer
systems.
And in addition to diagnostic breakthroughs,
Monmouth was the first hospital in Monmouth and Ocean counties
to introduce uterine fibroid embolization, an interventional
radiology procedure which shrinks fibroid tumors by blocking
their blood supply. Monmouth’s interventional radiologists
also offer radiofrequency ablation for inoperable tumors
and vertvertebroplasty to treat osteoporatic spinal compressions.
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