CT Lung

Dedicated thoracic CT on the GE Revolution Maxima covering lungs, mediastinum, pleura, and chest wall. Used for lung nodule characterisation, early lung cancer detection, pulmonary embolism evaluation, and post-COVID structural assessment. Published price: 625 RON (~€125).

Thoracic CT at Spitalul Medicover Pipera uses the GE HealthCare Revolution Maxima scanner to produce high-resolution volumetric images of the entire thorax in a single breath-hold. The Revolution Maxima's wide-area detector and rapid gantry rotation allow the chest to be scanned from the apices to the costophrenic angles in seconds, minimising respiratory motion artefact and producing isotropic sub-millimetre voxels that enable multi-planar and three-dimensional reconstruction of any region of interest within the thorax. The native chest CT protocol (CT torace nativ) is the most commonly used variant for lung pathology. It visualises the lung parenchyma with sufficient resolution to detect nodules down to 3–4 mm in diameter in the airways, identify ground-glass opacities and consolidation patterns, characterise pleural effusions and pleural thickening, assess mediastinal lymph node size and density, and evaluate the pericardium and great vessels. For patients who have had a previous chest infection, pneumonia, or a known or suspected malignancy, the native protocol provides a high-quality baseline or follow-up dataset against which interval changes can be measured precisely. Lung nodule management is one of the most common indications for chest CT in a private hospital with a self-pay and medical tourism population. Incidentally detected nodules — whether found on chest X-ray, during a previous scan for another indication, or on a PET scan — typically require CT for characterisation and sizing. The Revolution Maxima's thin-slice acquisition supports the size measurement precision required by the Lung RADS, Fleischner Society, and British Thoracic Society nodule management guidelines. For nodules that require contrast-enhanced evaluation (to assess enhancement characteristics suggesting malignancy vs. benign aetiology), a contrast injection adds 316 RON to the native protocol cost. The hospital also offers a dedicated post-COVID thoracic CT package (CT torace pachet evaluare initiala post covid 19 at 503 RON) for patients with persistent respiratory symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection. This protocol covers the lung parenchyma in detail to identify residual organising pneumonia, fibrotic change, bronchiectasis, and ground-glass opacity that may explain ongoing breathlessness, reduced exercise tolerance, or cough weeks to months after acute illness. For pulmonary embolism workup — one of the most time-critical chest CT indications — the hospital's 24/7 radiology service means a CT pulmonary angiography (angiografie CT artere pulmonare, listed at 996 RON ≈ €200) can be performed and reported at any hour. The Revolution Maxima's rapid acquisition and intelligent post-processing tools allow the reporting radiologist to reconstruct the pulmonary arterial tree to the segmental and sub-segmental level for complete clot mapping. The published price for CT torace nativ is 625 RON, converting to approximately €125 at 5 RON/EUR. No referral is required for self-pay bookings. The 24/7 availability means that international patients arriving in Bucharest can typically arrange a chest CT for the day of or the day after arrival without a waiting list.