Description

The Gustave Roussy Medical Imaging Department is organised in three major sectors:

• The work of the Diagnostic Imaging Department focuses on establishing a diagnosis, characterising the tumour lesions, and investigating for distant spread. It also ensures follow-up and assessment of treatment. All of this is based on a variety of imaging modalities (ultrasound, CT, MRI, mammography etc.).
• The Therapeutic Imaging Department employs «mini-invasive» diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. By virtue of specific innovatory methods (radiofrequency ablation and cryotherapy), it is possible to use various types of imaging to guide access to tumours (interventional radiology).
• The Nuclear Medicine and Endocrinology Department is responsible for comprehensive management of endocrine gland tumours: thyroid, adrenal and neuroendocrine. This unit depends on technical imaging facilities employing radio-isotopes (isotope scanning and PET-scan) which facilitate the administration of radio-isotope treatment.  

Clinical research

Diagnostic Imaging Department

• Evaluation of the role of breast tomosynthesis
• Definition of the place of spectral imaging in ENT conditions
• Evaluation of whole-body MRI protocols and functional MRI
• Continuing developments in angiomammography
• New assessment criteria in clinical research (in collaboration with DITEP)

Therapeutic Imaging Department

• Optimisation of treatment of bone pain in interventional radiology / radiotherapy 
• Ablation of lung tumours by cryotherapy 
• MEDICEN / BPI / industrial consortium project: improved chemoembolisation agents in hepatocellular carcinoma (CHC) and multimodal imaging guidance of needles in treatment of CHC
• Participation in more than 80 therapeutic trials using biopsy techniques 

Nuclear Medicine Department

• Introduction of new isotopes
• Participation in trials of novel therapies