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Radiology 

 

BREAST IMAGING AND INTERVENTION

Breast Biopsy

Breast MRI: Patient's guide

Information for patients receiving unlicensed medicines during a breast biopsy

Mammogram

 

CT

CT - 48-hour low dose oral preparation

CT aftercare following administration of contrast medium and or intravenous (IV) injection of Buscopan

CT: Safety Questionnaire 

CT: Colonoscopy

CT Colonoscopy with Picolax

CT: Small bowel (mannitol)

CT: Un-enhanced (No I.V. Contrast) scan

CT with intravenous contrast

Information for Prison Officers escorting Prisoners for CT examinations

Information on supporting a patient for their CT Examination

Lung biopsy

Radiology Biopsy

 

Fluoroscopy

Active cycle of breathing technique (background information – aspirated barium)

Aftercare following Gastric Band Adjustment

Barium Follow-Through Information Leaflet

Barium swallow and/or meal

Conduitogram 

Cystogram

Herniogram

Image Guided Ablation

Lumbar puncture

Micturating cystogram

Myelogram Information Leaflet

Paediatric barium follow through

Paediatric Barium swallow or meal preparation

Paediatric Micturating Cystogram (MCU or MCUG)

Sedation

Sialogram Information Leaflet

Sinogram

Suprapubic Catheter Insertion

Tubogram (Linogram)

Water Soluble Enema

Water soluble swallow and/or meal

 

Interventional

Angiography

Arm fistulogram or fistuloplasty

Arm venogram or venous angioplasty (Venoplasty)

Artery access for interventional procedures

Biliary drainage information

Bone Biopsy Information Leaflet

Discharge advice for patients following insertion of a vascular closure device

Discogram (Discography)

Gastric Band Adjustment

Hickman line

Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filter Insertion and Removal

Mesenteric Angiography

Nephrostomy

Ovarian Vein Embolisation

Percutaneous biliary drain or stent

Percutaneous ureteric stent

Prostate artery embolisation (PAE)

Radiologically inserted gastrostomy (RIG) tube insertion

Renal angiography (including angioplasty, stenting and embolisation)

Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) for liver tumours

Testicular vein embolisation

Transjugular Intrahepatic Porto-Systemic Shunt (TIPSS) procedure

Transjugular Liver Biopsy

Uterine Fibroid Embolisation

Vertebroplasty

 

MRI

MRI - Adult sedation

MRI - Adult under general anaesthesia

MRI - Arthrogram

MRI - Body non-contrast

MRI - Body with contrast

MRI - Cardiac

MRI - non-contrast

MRI - Paediatric sedation

MRI - Small bowel

MRI Information leaflet

MRI: Aftercare following intravenous injection of contrast medium, buscopan, Movi-Prep and adenosine

MRI: Small bowel (mannitol) 

 

Nuclear Medicine

Cardiac gated blood pool scan (MUGA Heart Scan)

Child DMSA kidney scan

Child renogram scan

Dacroscintigram Scan

DaTscan (Brain)

DMSA Kidney Scan (Adult)

Dynamic bone scan

Gallium PET-CT Scan

Gastric Emptying Study

Information for Patients before their Thyroid Ablation (Radioiodine) Therapy

Iodine -123 thyroid scan

Iodine -131 Administration & Scan

Isotope colonic transit

Kidney Function (GFR) Test

Lung Scan (VQ)

Lymph Scan

MIBG cardiac scan

MIBG scan

Myocardial perfusion stress scan

Nuclear Medicine: Radioactive Iodine Treatment

Nuclear Medicine: Thyroid scan

Octreotide scan

PET/CT (FDG) Scan

PSMA PET-CT Scan

Renogram scan

SeHCAT Test

Sentinel Lymph Node Breast Scan 

Whole body bone scan

 

Ultrasound

Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) and Small Biopsy Information Leaflet

Joint aspiration

Joint Injection information leaflet

Ultrasound guided drainage

Utrasound Guided Paracentesis

Ultrasound scan

Ultrasound scan - Abdomen

Ultrasound scan - Abdomen and pelvis

Ultrasound scan - Paediatric with no preparation

Ultrasound scan - Pelvis

Ultrasound scan - Urinary tract / Renal

Ultrasound-guided steroid injection

 

VASCULAR INVESTIGATIONS

Ankle brachial pressure index

Scan of your tummy area (abdomen) arteries

Ultrasound (Doppler) scan map of your arm veins (upper limb vein map)

Ultrasound (Doppler) scan of your upper limb arteries and veins

Ultrasound (Doppler) scans of your carotid artery

Ultrasound scan (Doppler) of your temporal arteries

Ultrasound scan map of your leg veins (Lower limb vein map Doppler)

Ultrasound scan of your aortic stent graft

Ultrasound scan of your bypass graft (Graft surveillance)

Ultrasound scan of your dialysis fistula

Ultrasound scan of your leg arteries (Lower limb arterial Doppler)

Ultrasound scan of your leg veins (Lower limb vein Doppler)

 


 

X-Ray

Colonic transit study

DEXA scan (bone density scan)

Follow-up X-rays of your child's bones (skeletal survey examination)

X-rays of your child's bones (skeletal survey examination)

X-rays: Information for patient supporters