The department of radiology is a fully accredited program that strives to provide the finest in patient care, resident training and research.

There are fifteen full time faculty, two dual department faculty and volunteer faculty.

There are 20 residents and a varying number of fellows.

The department is in the midst of a new batch of top of the line technology upgrades. There is one Siemens 64 slice dual tube CT scanner that has been newly installed in the ER, and our second CT scanner will soon be upgraded with an additional 64 slice Siemens CT scanner.

A brand new Fuji PACS system has recently been installed; each workstation will be able to render advanced 3D reconstructions.

The Ultrasound department has six ultrasound scanners, a new Hitachi HT Vision 8500, a new Phillips IU-22, a new Sequoia 512 , three Acuson XP-10 machines, and a portable ATL UM-5.

The department currently utilizes a new, state of the art, Shimadzu Digitex 2400 Alpha Plus angiography system for neurointerventional cases as well as a GE Advantix digital angiography suite for body interventional cases.

MRI imaging is done at the adjacent Harbor-UCLA Imaging Center, which currently houses a 4 slice GE CT scanner and a 1.5 Tesla MRI. A trailer borne MRI is often utilized for overflow imaging, and the department is currently in the process of purchasing a new 3 Tesla MRI.

The division of Nuclear Medicine performs approximately 5000 examinations per year including 2000 cardiac studies. These studies are performed with one state of the art triple head camera, one new dual head camera and three single head cameras.

The mammography division is part of a comprehensive and multidisciplinary group for the diagnosis, management, and treatment of breast disease. Mammography, ultrasound, breast MRI, and nuclear medicine studies are performed in the evaluation of breast disease. In addition, residents perform stereotactic core biopsies, ultrasound guided biopsies and cyst aspirations under faculty supervision.

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is one of the few Level-1 trauma centers in Southern California, and our adult and pediatric ERs see a very large volume of patients per day. Our trauma catchment area encompasses nearly all of southern Los Angeles County. Residents get extensive experience reading plain films while on the ER rotation. Here they interact with all subspecialists.

Pediatric radiology performs all the radiologic procedures pertaining to pediatrics and interprets all modalities from computed radiography to CT and MRI. Films are read with pediatric residents and staff from the NICU, PICU, and ward teams.