Kaweah Delta Imaging Center
Diagnostic Services at Kaweah Delta
You have a choice where your medical imaging services are performed, and
Kaweah Delta offers a local facility for residents of Tulare County. We
have equipped our imaging center with cutting-edge devices that provide
doctors with detailed information on a patient's health.
Our address is:
4949 W. Cypress
Visalia, CA 93277
Our uncompromised professional imaging standards rely on state-of-the-art
equipment and skilled medical professionals trained in their use. This
combination ensures that patients receive the best diagnostic services.
We utilize the only high quality digital imaging (also known as a filmless
environment) to dramatically reduces wait time and provides referring
physicians reports within 24 hours. Digital images are available instantaneously
to physicians in their office, at the hospital, or at home.
Imaging Equipment
The equipment at Kaweah Delta Imaging Center is designed for high speed
as well as quality. That means that we are able to complete exams quickly,
with minimal exam times on uncomfortable imaging surfaces.
Our advanced line of imaging modalities allow us conveniently serve our
patients and their physicians by minimizing the inconvenience of traveling
from one facility to another.
The imaging center is open Monday-Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Call
559-624-3200 if you have any questions.
Our imaging tech includes:
Breast Center
Our Visalia breast cancer care center is dedicated exclusively to comprehensive
breast imaging services for women. It is a state-of-the-art breast cancer
care facility that is the first of its kind in Visalia and the Central
Valley. We are fully accredited by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
and the American College of Radiology (ACR).
Learn More About Our Breast Center
MRI Scanner
GE’s 1.5 tesla Hi Speed Plus MRI with eight channel Excite technology
provides the finest MRI images quickly, accurately, and with extreme detail.
Our “short bore” technology also provides a more comfortable
environment that will make the exam less stressful.
CT Scanner
Toshiba’s Aquilion 16 Helical CT is one of the most highly advanced
units available. Highly detailed images are acquired within seconds to
provide our patients the most comfortable experience in CT procedures.
Ultra fast scan times, speed, and accuracy. It’s all to give our
patients a more comfortable experience.
Digital Imaging
Our diagnostic x-ray units are pure digital, filmless x-ray technology.
That means that there is no film or heavy cassettes that take valuable
time to process. A chest x-ray is taken, and within several seconds, the
image is on a monitor, and the patient is finished.
Picture Archiving
Picture Archiving Communication Systems (PACS)
Kaweah Delta Imaging Center is a totally filmless facility. Physicians
can access any films taken at Kaweah Delta Imaging Center or at Kaweah
Delta Hospital for immediate electronic viewing online. Physicians at
SRCC can access any images, whether CT, MRI, or x-rays, at the hospital,
their offices, or their homes. The speed in which we provide the information
for physicians to provide treatment could not be faster.
Digital Mammography
Digital Mammography
Kaweah Delta Imaging Center is home to Visalia's first digital mammography
units. A digital mammogram uses a special detector to capture and convert
x-ray energy into digital data. The resulting digital images are immediately
available to the radiologist for diagnosis and are incredibly flexible.
Much like a digital photo, the images can be enhanced, manipulated, and
improved by the radiologist, so a digital mammogram can provide more information
for diagnosis. Digital technology also offers better visibility of the
entire breast. In addition to a more flexible image, the new digital system
works with ImageChecker, a computer-aided detection system. The software
analyzes the image and highlights areas on the mammogram that contain
features associated with cancer-much like a second set of eyes for the
radiologist reading the mammogram. Breast localizations, stereotactic
biopsies and biopsies utilizing ultrasound are also completed within this
state-of-the-art facility.
Ultrasound
Ultrasound
Kaweah Delta Imaging Center provides a wide-range of ultrasound services
for obstetrical and general diagnostic patients, by licensed technologists
with more than 21 years of experience. We feature Toshiba ultrasound-imaging
technologies including the state-of-the-art Toshiba Aplio system with
the latest in color flow and Doppler capabilities.
Other outpatient radiology services are also offered at the following locations:
Nuclear Medicine Kaweah Delta Hospital
400 W. Mineral King - Visalia
(559) 624 2350
Services included isotope studies of the entire body including thyroid
scans/uptake, ventilation/perfusion scans, liver/spleen scans, hepatobiliary
scans, brain scans, renal scans, thallium myocardial scans and nuclear
medicine angiocardiograms and radioiodine therapy.
Ultrasound Kaweah Delta Hospital
400 W. Mineral King - Visalia
(559) 624 2600
Services include routine abdominal, pelvic and obstetrical studies, endovaginal
and transrectal sonography of the prostate, echoencephalography, color
and conventional Doppler studies, ultrasound-guided needle biopsies and
drainages and amniocentesis.
High quality sonography studies of all types are available with Toshiba
scanners and a variety of transducers. Our technologists cumulatively
have more ultrasound experience than any others in the area. Early morning
and late day appointments are available at the Kaweah Delta Hospital location.
We are accredited by the American College of Radiology.
Angiography/Interventional Radiology
Services include state-of-the-art arteriography and venography of the entire
body including aortograms, runoffs, cerebral studies, mesenteric studies,
specialized examinations including renal vein and adrenal vein sampling,
interventional procedures including peripheral angioplasty, thromboses,
transhepatic cholangiograms and drainages, percutaneous nephrostomies
and embolizations.
The Siemens angiography suite is capable of high quality examinations.
The physicians and staff have the greatest experience with angiographic
and interventional studies of anyone in the area.
PET/CT Scans
PET/CT is performed at Kaweah Delta Imaging Center on, Monday, Tuesday,
and Thursday by an outside specialty service. The company brings in the
PET/CT unit in a trailer, which sits outside the imaging center and is
staffed by their own technologist. There is limited room on the trailer
so patients must be able to ambulate to some degree from a wheelchair.
Centralized Scheduling Phone: (559) 624-4000
Centralized Scheduling Fax: (559) 713-2225