Women & Infants Hospital
The Diagnostic Imaging (DI) department at Women and Infants Hospital (WIH) performs a full-array of diagnostic imaging exams and interventional procedures with special emphasis on women’s imaging and neonatal imaging. Women and Infants Hospital, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation’s leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. The primary teaching affiliate of Brown Medical School for obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics, Women and Infants is the tenth largest obstetrical service in the country with more than 9,700 deliveries per year. In 2003, Brown University and Women and Infants were named a National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The diagnostic imaging department currently has a 1.5T MR, 16 slice CT, computed radiography fluoroscopy, full field digital mammography units, digital ultrasound units capable of 3D & 4D images, bone densitometry, and a stereotactic breast biopsy room. The department installed a new radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in 2006. The department performed more than 60,000 exams in 2006, including 23,000 ultrasound exams, 20,000 radiographic exams, 10,000 CT scans, 1,500 MR exams and 10,000 mammograms.
The department performs interventional procedures for women’s imaging including paracenteses, thorocenteses, and procedures under ultrasound, stereotactic or MR guidance.
The referring oncologists and surgeons for these procedures are affiliated with the Program in Women’s Oncology at Women and Infants, the state’s largest focused cancer program dedicated to women. The program includes a prospective, multidisciplinary tumor board process which includes the radiologists for diagnostic imaging presentations and discussions. The tumor board serves as the hub of a telemedicine program which shares its expertise in oncology throughout the world.
The department performs hysterosalpingograms and hysterosonograms for an active, academic reproductive endocrinology department which is based at Women and Infants but also serves the New England Medical Center in Boston.
The department faculty consists of 11 board certified, fellowship trained radiologists specializing in women’s imaging as well as five board certified, fellowship trained pediatric radiologists. All are part of the Brown Department of Diagnostic Imaging and are affiliated with Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital
