Radiology

Overview

Radiologists at Mayo Clinic provide patients with the latest in high-quality diagnostic and treatment imaging services. Working with state-of-the-art equipment and assisted by skilled technologists and nurses, Mayo radiologists perform and interpret more than a million examinations yearly. Radiologists support every medical department with their services.

Mayo Clinic offers an unparalleled number of diagnostic and therapeutic radiological procedures, including:

• Abdominal imaging
• Biopsy, using CT, ultrasound and fluoroscopic procedures
• Bone mineral analysis
• Breast imaging
• Cardiac radiology
• Computed tomography
  • Coronary artery calcification scoring
  • Lung cancer screening
• Diagnostic imaging in oncology
• Gastrointestinal radiology
• General radiology, chest and skeletal
• Genitourinary radiology
• Hospital radiology
• Interventional neuroradiology
• Interventional radiology, including biliary and genitourinary and ablation of neoplasms, angioplasty, guided biopsy and aspiration, neuroradiology and core breast biopsy
  • Image-guided treatment of liver tumors
  • Chemoembolization of tumors
  • Uterine fibroid embolization
  • Aortic aneurysm stent grafting
• Magnetic resonance imaging, including MR angiography
• Mammography, including preoperative wire localization and stereotactic needle biopsy
• Musculoskeletal imaging
• Neurologic radiology
  • Treatment of vertebral compression fractures with vertebroplasty
  • Diskography for degenerative disk disease
• Nuclear radiology
  • Bone scans
  • Thyroid scans
  • Biliary scans
  • Nuclear cardiology
  • PET
  • Sentinel lymphoscintigraphy
• Treatment of prostatic carcinoma with ultrasound-guided radioactive seed implants
• Ultrasound, including duplex and color-flow imaging
• Uroradiology
• Physics
• Thoracic radiology
• Ultrasonography
• Vascular radiology

Many radiologists at Mayo Clinic are also involved in training new specialists and researching new radiological services. There are 35 radiologists and physicists working at Mayo Clinic in Florida, 150 in Minnesota, and 33 in Arizona.