Neuroradiology/Head and Neck Radiology

Adam E. Flanders, MD, Co-Director
David  P. Friedman, MD, Co-Director

Phone: 215-955-5448

The Division of Neuroradiology/Head and Neck Radiology performs all the radiological and imaging procedures related to the nervous system, head, neck, and spine. It is staffed by seven neuroradiologists, two head and neck radiologists, and three neuroradiology fellows, and is physically situated in three primary areas: the 10th floor of the Main Building, the Clinical Office Building (COB) and the Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience (JHN). Current equipment on campus includes six 1.5 T MRI units, three open MRI units, a PET scanner, a four detector multislice CT scanner and two, sixteen channel multislice CT scanners. The nearby Jefferson Hospital for the Neurosciences has a two dedicated bi-plane angiographic and interventional units, a spiral CT, a linear accelerator, a Gamma Knife unit, and a 1.5 Tesla MRI unit. Jefferson neuroradiologists cover this facility.  Additional equipment acquisitions this year include a 3.0 Tesla MRI unit and a replacement multislice CT scanner for the JHN facility.

The Jefferson Neuroradiology/Head and Neck Radiology division is highly active clinically, in close collaboration with the Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology (via the adjacent Wills Eye Hospital), Orthopedic Surgery, and Rehabilitation Medicine (which runs a widely recognized model spinal cord injury center). Approximately three hundred selective cerebral arteriograms, 200 myelograms, and 16,000 CTs of the head and spine are performed each year. In addition, approximately 28,000 MRI scans of the head and spine are performed yearly. The Division has been very productive in research activities, partly as a result of joint efforts involving the clinical services mentioned above.

Head and Neck Radiology is part of the Division. A large variety and volume of facial, sinus, orbit, temporomandibular joint and neck cases are referred for radiologic evaluation from the busy Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. The residents learn to interpret plain films, CT and MRI studies, and receive extensive one-on-one teaching by a staff radiologist. There are a number of multidisciplinary conferences given during the week which feature neuroradiologic or head & neck imaging where there is direct correlation of the physical examination with the radiologic findings. In addition, the division hosts an extensive, web based teaching file illustrative of classic neurologic and head & neck diseases.

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