Departments

Medical Departments

Scanner - Computed Tomography

Mission

Historically

The Bordet Institute has been the first hospital in continental Europe to possess a scan that allows the study of the whole body.

 

Description

The scan (klik) is an X-ray machine that allows the visualisation of all parts of the body like slices which, at the beginning, were essentially axial.
Thanks to the new machines, a real volumetric exploration is allowed. All the plans are then reconstructed, what is more or less like the performance of the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging).
The scan is a way to examine different parts of the body, especially : the encephalon, the rachis, the neck, the thorax, the abdomen, the limbs.
Now, this technique is developing to a non-invasive vascular imaging (only by intravenous injection of iodine contrast, without having to make an arterial puncture or to put in place an intravascular cannula).
The scan is essential in dosimetry before a radiotherapy.

 

Our main activity is

- To detect tumors, to control their extension and to evaluate the different treatments possible.
- The early diagnosis of the various complications related to the state of immunodepression.

 

Development

- The virtual coloscopy (study of the colon - large intestine- without having to realize a barium enema or an endoscopy ) in order to screen out colic neoplasia.
- A second purpose is the screening of primary pulmonary tumor among patients at risk (thanks to a "low dose" screening scan).
- The CT-fluoroscopy (CT imagery in "real time") will allow us to develop the interventional imagery in a diagnostic aim (biopsies of deep organs) or in a therapeutic purpose (chronic pain treatment by targeted infiltrations, destruction of pulmonary metastases by radio frequency).
- The CT-angiography in preoperative preparations.

Person in charge : Dr D. De Becker