Radiology

Radiology is a priority department of Hangzhou Xixi Hospital and a Hangzhou Youth Civilization unit. It has received hospital awards for advanced and learning-oriented departments, belongs to the hospital's minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment center, the Zhejiang tumor minimally invasive intervention alliance and the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University's portal-hypertension TIPS alliance. Its imaging equipment includes three CT scanners: GE 64-slice EVO, United Imaging 40-slice uCT 530 and GE 16-slice Optima 540; a GE HDx 1.5 T MRI; Siemens Artis Q Ceiling digital subtraction angiography (DSA); digital radiography, multifunction digital imaging, panoramic dental radiography, dental CT and dual-energy bone densitometry. The department reports 33 medical, technical and nursing staff, nine with master's degrees or higher. Eleven hold senior ranks: three chief and five associate chief physicians, two associate chief technologists and one associate chief nurse. Eleven have intermediate ranks: six attending physicians, two supervising technologists and three supervising nurses; eleven hold junior or lower ranks. Staff have led or participated in dozens of national and provincial natural science foundation and provincial agency projects. In the previous five years they published over 20 papers as first or corresponding authors in SCI journals including Aging and Korean Journal of Radiology and leading Chinese journals. Routine services include coronary and other vascular CTA, CT and MRI of all body regions with noncontrast and contrast studies and functional MRI, X-rays, digital gastrointestinal contrast studies, panoramic dental imaging, bone density and whole-body fat measurement. It performs angiography throughout the body, tumor and portal-hypertension interventions, CT-guided biopsy and ablation of liver, lung and other tumors, drainage and sclerosis of liver and kidney cysts, drainage of liver and abdominal abscesses, and percutaneous transhepatic cholangial drainage (PTCD) and stenting for biliary obstruction. The department identifies imaging diagnosis of hepatobiliary-pancreatic and infectious diseases and interventional radiology as its strengths, reporting experience with cirrhosis, liver cancer and pulmonary and neurological infections. It reports over 500 segmental and subsegmental precise chemoembolization procedures for liver tumors annually and describes its activity and quality as leading in the field.