INTEGRIS Bass offers a full array of imaging services. The department is staffed with Registered Radiologic Technologists, Sonographers, MRI Technologists and Nuclear Medicine Technologists. The Medical Staff is board certified.

Some of the Features:

Mammography

Stereotactic Breast Biopsy is a minimally invasive breast biopsy using stereotactic imaging (x-ray). In this procedure, a patient lies face down on a special table with her breast gently falls through a hole in the table's surface. The breast is lightly compressed to immobilize it throughout the biopsy procedure. The table is connected to a computer that produces detailed x-ray images of the abnormality to be biopsied. Using these images, the doctor guides a special sampling device to collect tissue specimens.

INTEGRIS Bass Baptist Health Center has been performing this procedure for almost 12 years and has performed more than 1,300 stereotactic breast biopsies.

Ultrasound-guided breast biopsy is an accurate way to evaluate suspicious masses within the breast that are visible on ultrasound, whether or not they can be felt on breast self-examination or clinical examination. The procedure prevents the need to remove tissue surgically, and also eliminates the radiation exposure that comes from using x-rays to locate a mass.

After placing an ultrasound probe over the site of the breast lump and using local anesthesia, the radiologist guides a biopsy needle directly into the mass. Tissue specimens are then taken using either an automatic spring-loaded device, or by manual vacuum assistance.

Bone Density

INTEGRIS Bass Baptist Health Center uses sophisticated technology to assess the mineral content of a patient’s bones. This bone density scan is a fast, convenient and precise way to measure a woman’s bone density. The analyzed report of the test results can help identify patients that are at risk for osteoporosis.

The diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis should begin with an objective measurement of the patient’s current bone status. The technology used at INTEGRIS Bass is called DXA (short for dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry) can safely, accurately and painlessly measure bone mineral density. The scan can determine a woman’s fracture risk, so that she can begin therapeutic intervention to prevent further bone loss.

The most common areas examined are the fracture-prone hip and spine. Bone Mineral Density (BMD) is calculated and compared to normal BMD values and matched for age and sex. A low BMD by the scanning test may predict the likelihood of osteoporosis and fracture. The data derived from the DXA test is used to determine whether a patient is high, increased or at low risk for fracture.

Osteoporosis is a potentially painful and crippling disease that affects 23 million American women, 75% of who don’t even know that they have it. It occurs when bone loss is so severe it causes bones to become porous, brittle and likely to break. The good news is that osteoporosis is preventable and treatable. Today, we are better able to detect and treat bone loss in its earliest stages.

Most bone loss occurs during the first 10 years following the onset of menopause, when women lose bone density every year unless treated. That’s why the detection and treatment of bone loss during these years are critical. But sadly, fewer than 10% of women with osteoporosis have been diagnosed and are currently under treatment.

Ultrasound

Our MRI is a state-of-the-art unit fully capable of diagnostic imaging (MRI) and angiography (MRA).

CT Scan

INTEGRIS Bass Baptist Health Center recently installed a state of the Art 16-slice Computerized Tomography (CT) scanner. This CT scanner is the is the only one if its kind in Northwest Oklahoma and allows INTEGRIS Bass Baptist to be the only hospital in the area with two CT machines.
A few of the new capabilities of the new 16-slice CT scanner are:

• Virtual Colonoscopy this technology allows for a quick and accurate non-invasive colon exam. This is a benefit to a large segment of people who physically cannot have traditional colon examinations
• Cardiac Smart Score, which is a non-invasive method for measuring and reporting coronary artery calcifications.
• Advanced Lung Analysis allows our clinicians a highly accurate tool to track and measure lung nodules, with 3D volume images they are able to better see tissue volume which can aid in improved patient care
• Advanced Vessel Analysis provides tools to perform quick, and accurate analysis of vessel anatomy.

The new 16-slice scanner now allows Technologists at INTEGRIS Bass to scan much faster and gain more detailed images than with previous technology.

With the new multi-slice technology, 16 images can be obtained in as fast as 0.5 seconds. These images can be processed in different body planes and three-dimensional views without any additional radiation exposure to the patient.

CT’s are used when patients are ill or injured or when a physician suspects a medical problem that is not easily detectable from a physical examination. A thin X-ray beam is rotated around the area of the body to be viewed, and the resulting scans can then be reconstructed into 3-D models on a computer screen. A CT is most often used to evaluate the chest, abdomen, or pelvis, but is also used to view many other areas of the body such as the brain, spinal column, sinuses, and extremities.

Some of the major benefits of using a multi-slice CT scanner include diagnosis of trauma injuries, cardiovascular disease, skeletal disease, pulmonary emboli, chest infections, and diagnosis/treatment of cancer or imaging on patients that are very large or are unable to remain still for other types of diagnostic procedures.