Capitol Imaging has announced that its newly renovated office at Bluebonnet Imaging Center is nearing completion and will open in early June of 2019. Bluebonnet Imaging Center’s complete office renovation will feature all new imaging equipment and expanded services that will feature a GE 3T MRI, a Hitachi high field, 1.2T Open MRI, a Hitachi 32 Slice CT, GE Digital X-ray and Fluoroscopy technology, and Nuclear Medicine.
Bluebonnet Imaging’s 3T MRI produces the industry’s highest level of image quality and provides both doctors and their patients the highest level of image quality coupled with faster scan times. The 1.2T Open MRI will be Baton Rouge’s first high field, truly Open MRI producing the same image quality of a traditional, closed MRI, without patients being restricted in a closed, tunnel design. Bluebonnet Imaging’s new Hitachi 32 Slice CT will also feature a larger bore size, allowing for more patient comfort, in addition to producing better image quality.
John Stagg, CEO of Capitol Imaging Centers, said, “Having served the people of our region since 2006 with MRI and CT services, Bluebonnet Imaging is pleased to bring some of the most advanced diagnostic imaging technology available today into our newly renovated facility. This new equipment will produce superior image quality, all while making it a much more comfortable experience for the patient.”
“We are very excited to be adding these new services,” said Renee Gomez, marketing director for Bluebonnet Imaging. She continued, “One example is our new Open MRI, which, for the first time in Baton Rouge, patients will be able to receive high quality imaging in a true open design. There is no restricted tunnel in an open MRI, giving patients a lot more room and open views, which helps to reduce the patient's anxiety. This Open MRI technology offers the best of both worlds, ultimate patient comfort along with higher image quality.” Gomez also identified the benefits of Bluebonnet’s cutting edge 3T MRI scanner, which provides twice the imaging strength of a traditional MRI. She said, “3T MRI technology means we will be able to provide a patient’s physician with the highest level of imaging precision possible." Additionally, Gomez identified Bluebonnet’s new 32 slice Hitachi CT Scanner which features a larger 75 cm bore for added patient comfort. This technology produces exceptionally sharp imagery and at a lower dosage of radiation for the patient.
Combined, Bluebonnet Imaging’s new MRI and CT technologies offer patients and their physicians the highest level of image quality, paired with increased patient comfort, in a fast and convenient out-patient setting.
Capitol Imaging Centers owns and operates 18 diagnostic imaging centers across the state of Louisiana.