Department of Diagnostic Radiology

Faculty of Medicine
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2021-2024 Radiology focus areas, goals, and priority initiatives

See our 2021-2024 Strategy, focusing on providing the highest quality clinical care, education and research in diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy and intervention and being a leader in academic radiology in Canada. 

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David Fraser Radiology Research Foundation
Developing research opportunities

The David Fraser Radiology Research Foundation is a Nova Scotian charitable organization funded solely from private and corporate donations. The principal goal of the Foundation is to develop research activities in medically related fields with emphasis on application to the broad field of radiology in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at Dalhousie University.

New simulation equipment helps train doctors to remove blood clots quickly, confidently

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Thanks to a $415,000 Mentice digital training device and software the QEII and Dalhousie are purchasing, trainees across Atlantic Canada will be able to practice performing EVTs and other neurointerventional procedures in a simulated setting, with no risk to patients.

Dalhousie will be one of only three medical schools in Canada with this top-of-the-line simulation equipment.

Click here to read more.

‘A paradigm shift'

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A first in Canada, donor-funded nuclear medicine scanner is helping QEII physicians assess and diagnose diseases with precision that wasn’t previously possible — all while tackling waitlists with greater efficiency.

 

Last spring, Canada’s first StarGuide Hybrid SPECT/CT nuclear medicine scanner by GE HealthCare arrived at the QEII Health Sciences Centre, ushering in a new era of nuclear medicine. It’s what Dr. Steven Burrell, the QEII’s head of nuclear medicine, describes as a “paradigm shift.”

Read the full article in the QEII Times.

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