Computerized Tomography (CT) Scan

• Acute trauma to head, facial bones, spine and orbit (e.g. foreign body)

• Decreased or altered level of consciousness

• Seizures, 1st documented

• Stroke / Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)

• Acute thunderclap headache: suspected acute subarachnoid hemorrhage

• Screening for intracranial aneurysms – family history Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA)

• Intracranial venous thrombosis

• Appendicitis

• Diverticulitis

• Bowel obstruction

• Bowel ischemia

• Renal colic

• Cholecystitis or biliary obstruction

• Solid organ abscess/infection or collection

• Post-operative complications

• Metastasis preoperative workup

• Tumor – search for primary in the abdomen/pelvis

• Pancreatitis complications

• Malignant disease; staging prior to treatment or evaluation if concern regarding progression

• Solid organ masses (intraabdominal, pelvic for further characterization)

• Workup of asymptomatic abdominal mass

• Renal or liver transplant complications

Chest imaging without contrast and including Hi Res.

• Rapidly progressive shortness of breath (without a known underlying cause)

• Hemoptysis, increasing in frequency and volume

• Acute interstitial lung disease

• Further characterization of mediastinal, lung or pleural mass

• Lymphadenopathy (hilar, mediastinal)

• Evaluating atypical lung or pleural infection and symptomatic patients with a cough

• High clinical suspicion for pneumonia/infection with a normal chest radiograph

• Chronic Interstitial lung disease – evaluation of progression

• Bronchiectasis

• Characterization of small pulmonary nodule

• Evaluation for lung cancer in high risk individuals

• Acute/ unstable infective endocarditis

• Suspected prosthetic valve dehiscence

• Chest pain (typical / atypical in high risk patient) (Coronary CTA)

• Stable suspected infective endocarditis

• Myo-/pericarditis (MRI contraindicated)

• Coronary artery calcium score

• Follow-up pericardial effusion

• Acute spinal trauma

• Acute myelopathy, (cord compression, cauda equina syndrome)

• Discitis / osteomyelitis, suspected

• Evaluation of rapidly deteriorating malignant disease

• Sciatica with progressive neurological deficit

• Back pain with red flags

• Spinal stenosis with bowel or bladder dysfunction

• Acute fractures with inconclusive plain X-rays, or for preoperative evaluation by an Orthopedic surgeon

• Necrotizing fasciitis

• Assess postoperative complications, hardware or fracture alignment

• Osteomyelitis (if MRI contraindicated)

• Tumor – primary bone or soft tissue skeletal

• Unstable metastatic bone lesion

• Diagnose and follow up on Aortic Aneurysms

• Diagnose and follow up Aortic Dissections

• Renal Angiogram to assess for renal hypertension

• EVAR to check patency of Aortic stents

• Abdominal Angio to find source of GI Bleeding