Radiology

The Department of Radiology of Peking University Third Hospital was established in 1958, at the very beginning of the hospital’s founding, by Professor Li Guozhen. After more than 60 years of development, under the successive leadership of five directors—Professor Li Guozhen, Professor Liu Gengnian, Professor Xie Jingxia, Professor Li Xuan, and Professor Yuan Huishu—it has become a modern medical imaging department with comprehensive capabilities, advanced equipment, and coordinated development in medical care, education, research, and discipline development.

The department currently has 198 staff members, including 52 in the Diagnostic Group, 113 in the Technical Group, 12 in the Nursing Group, 17 in the Registration Group, and 4 in the Engineering and Secretarial Group. Of these, 10 hold senior professional titles and 15 hold associate senior professional titles. More than 90% of diagnostic physicians hold doctoral degrees, and 7 technologists hold master's degrees.

In terms of hardware, the main campus of Peking University Third Hospital and all its branch campuses currently have 14 high-field MRI scanners of 1.5T or higher, 14 high-end CT scanners with 64 slices or more, 1 fully digital mammography X-ray unit, and 22 digital radiography systems (DR). The department has established PACS and RIS platforms covering the entire hospital and all branch campuses, enabling information-based and digital management of imaging, as well as self-service distribution of diagnostic reports and imaging films. As part of the hospital's group-based development plan, imaging equipment at the branch campuses is being successively updated and reconfigured.

On the basis of its advanced equipment platform, the department can provide whole-body digital X-ray radiography, whole-body computed tomography (CT), whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and various interventional examination and treatment services. Over the past 10 years, the department's annual examination volume has increased steadily; in 2022, it provided imaging diagnosis and interventional treatment services to more than 960,000 patients. The department is at the forefront in China in the clinical application of multislice spiral CT and high-field MRI. It can perform routine CT and MR examinations of all body systems, as well as complex examinations such as neonatal and fetal brain MRI and MR arthrography, fully meeting clinical requirements for imaging examinations of various diseases. The department places great importance on medical quality and safety, continuously optimizes clinical workflows, and constantly improves examination protocols. In 2014, it added a quality control module (QC) to the RIS platform, enabling quality-control evaluation at every stage of the entire process from registration, examination, and diagnosis to result distribution. At the same time, it emphasizes multidisciplinary collaboration and exchange, conducting MDT comprehensive diagnosis and treatment meetings and joint imaging review meetings with multiple hospital departments: the Pain and Oncology CT Interventional Outpatient Clinic, the Joint Respiratory Outpatient Clinic, the Joint Neurology Outpatient Clinic, and others. Based on patients' actual needs, in 2019 the department introduced a Radiology outpatient consultation service, greatly meeting the needs of patients and clinical teams for consultation on difficult imaging cases and on-site image interpretation.

The Department of Radiology of Peking University Third Hospital is one of the first institutions in China authorized to confer master's and doctoral degrees in imaging. To date, it has trained nearly 200 doctoral and master's graduates, and several doctoral and master's students are currently enrolled. It undertakes year-round teaching of the Imaging Medicine and Nuclear Medicine courses at Peking University Health Science Center, provides advanced training each year to dozens of physicians and visiting scholars, and became one of Beijing's first standardized residency training bases in 2007; in 2016, it ranked first in the inspection of Beijing's standardized residency training bases. Since 2012, it has held the National Advanced Forum on Comprehensive Imaging Diagnosis and the Advanced Training Course on Musculoskeletal Imaging every year without interruption, and has organized multiple national-level and Beijing-level continuing education courses, greatly enhancing the department's academic influence.

In 2011, the Department of Radiology was designated as the Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Equipment and Technology. It has undertaken nearly 100 research projects under programs and funds including the National 12th Five-Year Plan Science and Technology Support Program, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key Research and Development Program, national-level 863 Program projects and national-level 985 Program projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, the Beijing Capital Medical Development Research Fund, the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, the Capital Clinical Characteristic Application Research of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Science and Technology, and the Science and Technology Beijing Hundred Leading Talents Training Project. It has repeatedly won major awards, including the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award and the Chinese Medical Award, and has obtained multiple research patents. It has published more than 780 academic papers in domestic and international core journals, including more than 150 papers indexed by SCI and EI, as well as multiple monographs and translated works; department members have participated more than 100 person-times in top-tier international and domestic professional conferences, including the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), and the National Annual Meeting of the Radiology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, and have delivered conference presentations.

Several experts of the Department of Radiology of Peking University Third Hospital hold important positions in domestic academic organizations. Professor Yuan Huishu, the department's administrative director and academic leader, serves as a Standing Committee Member of the Radiology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, Chair of its Musculoskeletal Professional Committee, Vice Chair of the Radiology Branch of the Beijing Medical Association, and an Executive Council Member of the Radiology Branch of the Beijing Medical Doctor Association, among other positions. Professor Yuan is an editorial board member of multiple core journals, including the Chinese Journal of Radiology and the Chinese Journal of Medical Imaging Technology, Editor-in-Chief of the Musculoskeletal Radiology column of the Journal of Clinical Radiology, and has twice received the Second Prize of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award.

Professor Han Hongbin currently serves as Director of the Institute of Medical Technology of Peking University Health Science Center, Chair of the Professional Committee on Magnetic Resonance Equipment and Technology of the China Association of Medical Equipment, a member of the National Expert Committee on Industrial Foundation, Director of the Key Laboratory for Quality Control of Medical Imaging Equipment of the National Medical Products Administration, and Corresponding Academician of the Life Sciences Division of the International Academy of Astronautics, among other positions. Professor Han has received multiple national-, provincial-, and ministerial-level scientific research honors, including the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the China Youth Science and Technology Award, and has applied for multiple patents.

Professor Liu Jianyu serves as a member of the Abdominal Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Radiology, a council member of the Chinese Society for Imaging Technology Research and a member of its Radiology Branch, and an invited reviewer and peer-review expert for multiple journals, including the Chinese Journal of Radiology and the Chinese Medical Journal (English Edition). Several other physicians in the department hold key positions in important domestic academic organizations.

In terms of discipline development, Professor Yuan Huishu has led the department in deepening reforms and dividing imaging diagnosis into subspecialty groups, making the disciplinary structure more complete and rational. The department currently has 5 subspecialty groups: the Musculoskeletal and Joint Imaging Group, the Digestive and Genitourinary Imaging Group, the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Imaging Group, the Neuro and Head-and-Neck Imaging Group, and the Interventional Radiology Group. The diagnostic subspecialty groups are all advancing in parallel. Building on the platform of the hospital's leading clinical departments, the Musculoskeletal and Joint Imaging Group continues to build on its experience and innovate, and holds an unequivocally leading position in China's musculoskeletal imaging specialty.

Under the leadership of Director Yuan Huishu, the Department of Radiology of Peking University Third Hospital will continue to uphold the philosophy of all-round multidisciplinary development with a focus on key subspecialties, adhere to the service tenet of “people-oriented,” carry forward the spirit of “teamwork, professionalism, and dedication,” provide every patient with high-quality, professional, and personalized services, and make its due contribution to the development of medical imaging in China!

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