Diagnostic Imaging Department

The Department of Diagnostic Imaging is a key medical and health discipline of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a key discipline of Inner Mongolia Medical University, and a key discipline cultivated for doctoral degree programs at Inner Mongolia Medical University. It has become a “medical imaging discipline” with comprehensive technologies, advanced equipment, distinctive disciplinary features, and outstanding and strong medical, teaching, and research teams and foundations, forming a complete disciplinary and professional system integrating the subspecialties of neuroradiology, cardiothoracic imaging, abdominal and pelvic imaging, head and neck imaging, and musculoskeletal imaging. The department currently has 121 employees, including 15 with doctoral degrees and 50 postgraduate students, 1 doctoral supervisor, 9 master’s supervisors, and 1 recipient of a special allowance from the State Council. It has 5 DR units, 3 mobile DR units, 3 digital gastrointestinal machines, 1 mammography X-ray machine, 9 CT units, and 5 MRI units. It is a vice-chairman institution of the Radiology Branch of the Chinese Ethnic Health Association, the institution of the chairperson of the Inner Mongolia Radiology Branch, and the institution of the president of the Inner Mongolia Radiologists Branch; many staff members have become members of the National Radiology Branch, members of its special committees, and youth committee members. In recent years, the Department of Diagnostic Imaging has made outstanding contributions in the imaging fundamentals and clinical applications of brucellosis, CT imaging technology and clinical applications for coronary heart disease, the fundamentals and clinical applications of MRI for central nervous system diseases, clinical application research on body CT perfusion imaging, and research on artificial intelligence diagnosis and evaluation of malignant tumors, filling gaps within the region. It has obtained 42 national- and provincial/ministerial-level scientific research projects, more than 4 million yuan in research funding, and published more than 300 papers in total, including 26 SCI papers in Euro Radiol, Euro J Radiol, and Front Oncol., with a total impact factor of 37.472 points. It has received 2 Second Prizes for Scientific and Technological Progress of the Autonomous Region, 4 Third Prizes for Scientific and Technological Progress of the Autonomous Region, and 3 Second Prizes for Science and Technology of the Autonomous Region Medical Association.