Diagnostic Imaging Services

Digital X-ray is a quick and safe way to produce clear diagnostic images. At FV, we use modern equipment and careful imaging techniques to keep radiation exposure as low as possible, while ensuring your examination is accurate and comfortable.

FV is equipped with the Siemens Somatom Drive Dual-Source 128-Slice CT scanner, one of the most advanced CT scanner machines, designed for high-speed, low-dose imaging and superior precision.

A CT scanner (Computed Tomography) uses X-rays and computer processing to produce detailed cross-sectional images of the body and generate high-resolution 3D images of internal organs, bones, joints, and surrounding soft tissues. These detailed 3D images enable radiologists and clinicians to make more precise diagnosis and plan surgical interventions effectively.

FV is equipped with the Philips MRI 3 Tesla Ingenia Elition X, a revolutionary breakthrough in diagnostic quality and speed. The Ingenia Elition delivers on superb image quality, and performs MRI exams up to 50% faster.

MRI is a non-invasive, non-radiation, diagnostic tool utilising strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed, high-resolution 3D images of soft tissues, organs, brain, and bones.

Our MRI allows to perform cardiac MRI which is a painless, safe and noninvasive way to see detailed pictures of your heart without using radiation. Cardiac MRI images show the parts of your heart and any damage to specific areas. A heart MRI also shows how well your heart’s chambers and valves are working and how well your blood is moving.

Fluoroscopy uses low-dose X-rays to produce real-time, moving images of the body’s internal structures, functioning like a video rather than a still photo. It helps diagnose conditions, guide procedures like injections, catheter placement, or lumbar punctures, and improve accuracy and safety, sometimes using contrast to highlight the area examined.

Some common fluoroscopic procedures include:

Ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves to create real-time images of organs, tissues, and blood flow. It is safe, non-invasive, and radiation-free, enabling accurate assessment of the abdomen, pelvis, heart, vessels, and other structures for precise diagnosis.

Ultrasound is also used to perform procedures such as biopsies, steroid injections, drainages, aspirations, PRP injections, nerve blocks and radiofrequency ablation.

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (3D Mammography)

FV boasts the GE Senographe Pristina, a digital mammography system designed to transform the patient experience by prioritizing comfort and reducing anxiety, and providing Digital Breast Tomosynthesis, which is a technologically advanced form of mammography using a series of two-dimensional images to build a three-dimensional image of your breast.

Sometimes a mammogram may identify an abnormality which appears like cancer, but turns out to be normal. This is called a false positive. Likewise, there is also a small probability that mammograms may not detect cancer hidden by normal breast tissues. This is called a false negative.

Compared to a traditional mammogram, a 3D mammogram offers benefits such as:

Breast Ultrasound

A breast ultrasound is a non-invasive, radiation-free exam that uses sound waves to produce images of breast tissue. Ultrasound is often used as a supplemental breast cancer screening tool, following a mammogram, to get additional information necessary for a complete diagnosis. Ultrasound provides real-time imaging, which may be used in guiding procedures such as biopsies. Ultrasound can help a radiologist determine whether a lump or abnormality is fluid-filled, fatty, or a solid mass.

Breast MRI

This high-sensitivity imaging test is primarily used for screening patients at high-risk for breast cancer, assessing dense breast tissue, evaluating cancer spread, and checking implant integrity.

A quick (10–15 minute), contrast-enhanced, 3D screening tool that offers high sensitivity for detecting breast cancer in women with dense breasts.

Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA)

A quick, minimally invasive, outpatient procedure that uses a very thin needle to collect cells or fluid from a breast lump or cyst, often guided by ultrasound.

Stereotactic Breast Biopsy

Also called a stereotactic core needle biopsy — is a minimally invasive outpatient procedure performed under 3D mammographic guidance to remove the suspicious tissue so it can be tested for cancer cells.

An image-guided biopsy is used to access difficult-to-reach areas of the body to sample tissue for diagnostic testing. The biopsy is done under “image guidance,” which means that images or pictures taken through a CT scan, an ultrasound or an MRI will be used to help the doctor get the tissue samples. This technique is helpful for diagnosing cancer as well as inflammatory and infectious diseases.

Examples of image-guided biopsies include: