Kaweah Delta Imaging 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).

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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.

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.

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 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

Kaweah Delta Imaging Center is proud to be the first in Visalia to provide 3D mammography to our community. Digital breast tomosynthesis (tomo), also known as 3D mammography, is a revolutionary new screening and diagnostic breast imaging tool to improve the early detection of breast cancer. During the 3D part of the exam, an x-ray arm sweeps over the breast, taking multiple images in seconds. Images are displayed as a series of thin slices that can be viewed by our radiologists as individual images or in a dynamic interactive animation. 3D mammography is used in combination with 2D digital mammography. The resulting digital images are immediately available to the radiologist for diagnosis and are incredibly flexible. 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.

Bone Densitometry (DEXA)

Bone densitometry, also called dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry or DEXA, uses a very small dose of ionizing radiation to produce pictures of the inside of the body (usually the lower spine and hips) to measure bone loss. It is commonly used to diagnose osteoporosis and to assess an individual’s risk for developing fractures. DEXA is simple, quick and noninvasive. It’s also the most accurate method for diagnosing osteoporosis.

This exam requires little to no special preparation. Tell your doctor and the technologist if there is a possibility you are pregnant or if you recently had a barium exam or received an injection of contrast material for a CT or radioisotope scan. Leave jewelry at home and wear loose, comfortable clothing. You may be asked to wear a gown. You should not take calcium supplements for at least 24 hours before your exam.

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.

Kaweah Delta Imaging Center
4949 W Cypress Ave.
Visalia, CA 93277
(559) 624-4000

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.

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 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