Guys and St Thomas Radiology - London Deanery

Guy’s Hospital
The main radiographic facilities are on the 2nd and 3rd floors of Guy’s Tower, which
was built in 1977. There are 13 examination rooms including 3 ultrasound rooms, an
angiocardiographic room and a non-vascular interventional room. There is a 1.5
Philips Gyroscan MRI Unit predominantly for research purposes and a 16 slice
Philips multislice Spiral CT Scanner installed. There is an additional new CT scanner
being installed this year (2009). New digital rooms have being installed.. There are 3
US machines in general US. There is a newly developed Breast Unit with 3 digital
mammography units and 2 dedicated US machines. Obstetric ultrasound and
ultrasonic angiology are separate departments. There is a separate, large very active
nuclear medicine department.
Facilities and Activities
There are StR offices and research facilities. The Department has a well-equipped
Lecture Theatre and a separate demonstration room. There are Registrar offices.
There is a department library containing a selection of books and journals, and there is
a departmental film library. Internet access is available across the department. A
computerised reference retrieval system is also available. Departmental teaching
conferences are held daily. There are regular clinico-radiological conferences in
urology/nephrology, chest medicine, surgery and neurology. Multidisciplinary
meetings for gynae and uro -oncology, lung cancer, breast cancer and ENT oncology
are held weekly.
Department of Radiological Sciences
This Department is now firmly established and headed by Prof Razavi. There are a
number of other members of staff with scientific backgrounds. Members of the
Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine are automatically members of the
Department of Radiological Sciences.
Academic Chair of Interventional Radiology
This post was established in 1992 and is held by Professor A Adam. Professor Adam
is Chairman of the Minimally Invasive Therapy Group at Guy’s in the Department of
Radiological Sciences.
There are extensive facilities for intervention in the trust with a very broad range of
vascular and non vascular intervention. New techniques available include oesophageal
stent insertion, oesophageal dilatation, vertebroplasty, RF ablation of liver, renal and
lung tumours, carotid angiography/angioplasty.
St Thomas’ Hospital
The Radiology Department at St Thomas’ Hospital consists of 26 examination rooms.
Three of these are situated in the A&E Department but the rest are altogether in the
main department. There are good links with the Department of Nuclear Medicine