Program Description
The Neuroradiology Section, comprised of five attending radiologists - and an associate neurointerventionalist - and three diagnostic neuroradiology fellows, is a part of the Department of Radiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. We perform close to 15,000 CT studies, 15,000 MRI studies, nearly 600 diagnostic angiograms, between 100-200 neurointerventional cases, and over 200 spinal invasive procedures per year.
We have access to five clinical 1.5 T MR units; one clinical 3.0 T MR unit; and one dedicated 3.0 T research MR unit. There are five CT scanners in the hospital (including one dual source unit) and two in outlying outpatient facilities. We have two state-of-art biplane angiographic units in a dedicated neurovascular suite, as well as access to five additional angiography rooms in the general vascular/interventional radiology suite. The hospital currently houses two PET/CT scanners. Our research facility is headed by an MR physicist and an MR spectroscopist, both onsite. The entire Department of Radiology has been PACS based since 2001 and a voice-recognition dictation system was installed in 2006.
We work closely on both the clinical and academic fronts with several groups on campus, including the Division of Neurosurgery, the Department of Neurology, the Department of Head and Neck Surgery, the Department of Psychiatry, the Department of Anesthesia, the School of Dentistry,
and the School of Computer Sciences. The 800 bed hospital complex at UNC includes the NC Neurosciences Hospital (which houses nearly 150 beds) and the NC Women’s and Children’s Hospitals. A new 50-bed cancer hospital is currently under construction and is expected to open in the summer of 2009. The Hospitals are adjacent to the Medical School.