About Us

The University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) brings together outstanding clinical facilities of the University of Chicago Hospitals with the education and research facilities of the Pritzker School of Medicine and the Biological Sciences Division of the University of Chicago. The UCMC resides entirely on the 190 acre University of Chicago campus approximately seven miles south of Chicago’s business district. Having recently completed expansion with the opening of the new Comer Children’s Hospital facilities and the Ellen & Melvin Gordon Center for Integrative Science, work continues on additional research buildings (Jules and Gwen Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery scheduled to open in 2009) and construction is about to begin on a new hospital pavilion which will result in the largest facility on the medical campus.

Annually named to the US News & World Report list of the best hospitals in the USA, UCMC has the further distinction of being one of the 19 awardees of the “Honor Roll”, an elite group of facilities that received top scores in six or more specialties. The clinical facilities at the UCMC currently include the Mitchell Hospital, a 395 bed adult hospital facility, the Comer Children’s Hospital, with 155 beds, and the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine, the 525,000 square foot outpatient clinic and surgery facility for the University faculty. All physicians on the staff at these facilities are full-time faculty at the University of Chicago. The Department of Radiology operates facilities in all of these locations providing care and education in conjunction with our colleagues in the medical center.

Department of Radiology Clinical Facilities

Mitchell Hospital

Computed Tomography

  • One Philips 256 slice CT scanner
  • Two Philips 64 slice CT scanners
  • One Philips 16 slice CT scanner

MRI

Inpatient Scanner:

  • One Philips 1.5T MR Scanner

Clinical Research Scanners:

  • One Philips 1.5T
  • One Philips 3T MR scanner

Nuclear Medicine

  • One single head Philips camera
  • Two dual head Philips cameras
  • One triple head Philips camera

Diagnostic Radiology

  • One Fuji ES Chest unit
  • One Philips Radiographic/Fluoroscopy unit
  • Three General Electrics General Imaging units
  • One General Electric Dental unit

Interventional Radiology

  • Two Bi-plane Angiographic units
  • Three single plane Angiographic units

 Ultrasound

  • Four General Electric U/S scanners
  • One Siemens scanner

 

Comer Children's Hospital

Computed Tomography

  • One Philips 256 slice CT scanner

MRI

  • One Philips 1.5T MR scanner

Ultrasound

  • Two Philips IU 22 scanners
  • One Zonare U/S unit

Diagnostic Radiology

  • One Philips Digital Imaging unit
  • Two Philips Radiographic/Fluoroscopy units

 

Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM)

Computed Tomography

  • One Philips 64 slice CT scanner
  • One Philips 16 slice CT scanner

MRI

  • Two GE 1.5T MR scanners
  • One Philips 1.5T MR scanner
  • One Philips 3T MR scanner

Cardiac Nuclear Medicine

  • One cardiac first pass camera
  • One dual head Philips camera
  • Two General Electric cameras

Diagnostic Radiology

  • Three Siemens Radiographic/Fluoroscopy units
  • Six General Electric General imaging units
  • One Fuji ES Chest unit

PET

  • One Siemens PET - 64 slice CT scanner
  • One CTI/Siemens OET-CT scanner

Breast Imaging

  • Three Hologic full field digital units
  • Two General Electric full field digital units
  • One Fisher Stereotactic Table
  • Two Philips U/S scanners