Medical Imaging

The Department of Medical Imaging of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University is authorized to confer master’s and doctoral degrees in Imaging Medicine and Nuclear Medicine at Harbin Medical University and hosts a postdoctoral research station; it is also one of the leading institutions in the first national group of clinical key specialties in medical imaging. The Imaging Center comprises the CT Unit, Magnetic Resonance Unit, and General Radiology Department. At present, the Department of Medical Imaging has seven high-/ultra-high-field magnetic resonance systems (including six 3.0T MRI systems and one 1.5T MRI system); nine multi-slice spiral CT systems (including three 320-slice CT systems, one gemstone spectral CT system, one dual-source CT system, one 256-slice CT system, two 16-slice CT systems, and one mobile shelter CT system); and multiple large-scale imaging diagnostic devices, including CR and DR systems, greatly improving the level of imaging diagnosis at our hospital.

The professional level of medical imaging at the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University is at the forefront of the development of medical imaging research in China and abroad. It emphasizes a development model that combines “specialty development” with “multiple capabilities within one specialty,” and has established a “comprehensive imaging” management system with distinctive characteristics of its own, meeting the requirements of being both comprehensive and precise in imaging diagnosis. The Center has more than 80 physicians, technologists, and nurses, including 1 professor, 9 associate professors, and 15 lecturers; it has 1 doctoral supervisor and 3 master’s supervisors, and has published more than 60 articles in domestic and international medical journals, including SCI-indexed and core journals. Based on its own characteristics, it has trained professional personnel at multiple levels in medical imaging, including undergraduate, master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral trainees, who are distributed throughout the country; it has trained more than 40 outstanding standardized-training physicians. Among the physicians, 80% hold a master’s degree or higher, and the talent structure is scientifically and rationally configured.

The Department of Medical Imaging of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University is a key discipline in Heilongjiang Province integrating clinical care, teaching, and scientific research. All medical personnel in the Department of Medical Imaging will wholeheartedly serve the general public in accordance with the principle of “striving for excellence and putting service first.”