Services

Hagerstown Imaging provides a variety of high-quality medical and diagnostic imaging services. Hagerstown Imaging is also involved in brain research projects for funded grant projects with major national institutions.

PET Scan

How does a PET Scan work?A PET Scan integrates two technologies to view your body. Computed Tomography (CT) and a radioactive material (tracer). The tracer is what allows doctors to see how your body tissues absorb and use different chemicals.

Control room with monitors managing a CT scanner in a medical facility.

Other common uses of PET are in field of Neuropsychatric Disorders. For example PET is useful in pre-surgical evaluation of medically uncontrolled seizures. By detecting metabolic changes in the brain, the surgeon can pinpoint the nonfunctioning area of the brain causing seizures.

PET can also help in diagnosing Dementia and to differentiate Alzheimer’s disease from other causes of Dementia. PET can also stage vasious brain tumors and help to differentiate residual or recurrent tumor from radiation necrosis.

  • There have also been rapid advances being made to expand clinical applications of PET/CT scanning in new conditions an disorders. We offer Ga- 68 Pet scan for study of somatostatin receptors in patients with carcinoid tumors and Neuroendocrine tumors.
  • We will offer newer tracer PET scans and new treatment methods with radionuclides as these are developed and become available for clinical use.
  • We also offer F-18 labelled brain amyloid imaging scans useful in detecting amyloid paques depositions commonly seen in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease.
  • We also offer palliative treatment of bony metastases in prostate cancer patients with refractory treatment.
  • New imaging Procedures
    Hagerstown imaging is proud to be one of the first national and the only regional diagnostic imaging site providing the most advanced, cutting-edge technology in optimizing patient care and to assist our referring physicians in routine patient care decisions such as:

    1. New clinical PET scans useful in the diagnosis and treatment management of patients with Dementia in detecting abnormal Amyloid brain deposits characteristic of Alzheimer’s Dementia using new amyloid imaging F-18 PET radiotracers such as Amyvid, Neuraceque etc. We provide amyloid quantitation data using the most advanced brain quantitation soft wares available for accurate image interpretation.

    2. New PET diagnostic imaging scans in patients with Prostate cancer using approved F-18 and Ga-68 PROSTATE Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA)

    3. Cu-64 and Ga-68 PET radiotracers with DOTATATE in imaging in patients with Neuroendocrine Tumors (NET)

    4. We will soon start providing new cardiac perfusion and viability PET studies using approved F-18 radiotracers.

    5. We will also be soon providing other new PET clinical scans using new F-18 PET radiotracers as these become available in diagnosis of other different cancers.

CT Scan

How does a CT Scan work?CT rapidly creates detailed pictures of the body, including the brain, chest, spine and abdomen. It is able to detect and localize changes in the body structure or anatomy, such as the size, shape and exact location of an abnormal growth, a sizeable tumor or a musculoskeletal injury.

The test may be used to:

  • Diagnose an infection
  • Guide a surgeon to the right area during a biopsy
  • Identify masses and tumors, including cancer
  • Study blood vessels
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Our physician evaluates damage to the organs from any cancer that has spread (metastasized) from other areas. PET Scans often reveal problems much earlier than typical X-rays and have become a valuable screening study and a tool for assessing response to therapy for cancer that has spread to the organs.

PET Scan Benefits at Hagerstown Imaging

  • Outstanding image quality
  • Helps assess responses to therapies
  • Aids in critical treatment decisions
  • Highly accurate in detecting bone metastatic disease.