Central Louisiana Imaging Center (CLIC), a service of CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital, is a dedicated imaging center and single source solution for a full range of imaging needs. CLIC specializes in providing the highest quality, fully digital McKesson PACS based imaging procedures performed in a convenient, easily accessible outpatient setting.
CLIC also houses Central Louisiana's only minimally invasive interventional practice. CLIC has developed the quickest and most efficient diagnostic imaging process in the region.
CLIC also houses Central Louisiana's only minimally invasive interventional practice. CLIC has developed the quickest and most efficient diagnostic imaging process in the region.
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A computerized tomography (CT) scan combines a series of X-ray images taken from different angles and uses computer processing to create cross-sectional images (pictures), or slices, of the bones, blood vessels and soft tissues inside your body. CT scan images provide more detailed information than plain X-rays do.
General Radiography services include all routine radiographic procedures in addition to x-rays of the chest, spine and extremities. When performing these procedures, our radiologists use our GE XRD Digital X-Ray System - the all-digital x-ray system in Central Louisiana. Before your examination, a radiographer will explain the procedure to you and answer any questions you might have.
Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, is one of the fastest growing areas of medical imaging. Like CT, MRI produces images that are the visual equivalent of a slice of anatomy. MRI, however, is also capable of producing those images in an infinite number of image planes through the body. To produce this image, MRI uses a large magnet that surrounds the patient in addition to radio frequencies and a computer. As the patient enters an MRI scanner, his or her body is surrounded by a magnetic field up to 8,000 times stronger than that of the earth.
You may hear the terms "PET" used in conjunction with nuclear medicine procedures. Positron emission tomography, or PET, uses a special camera and computer to construct a 3-D image of the area being scanned. Single photon emission computerized tomography, or SPECT, produces a cross-sectional image of the area being scanned.
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Darlene Sanders
Oct 28, 2020
