CT Whole Body

Comprehensive CT scan covering thorax, abdomen, and pelvis in a single run at Campus Medical Pallady. Detects tumours, lymph node involvement, vascular abnormalities, and organ pathology across the major body cavities. Standard oncological staging protocol.

The whole-body CT at Regina Maria Campus Medical Pallady covers the thorax, abdomen, and pelvis in a continuous acquisition, providing a comprehensive cross-sectional survey of the three major body cavities and all their contents. This is the standard protocol for oncological staging, follow-up, and any clinical scenario where a broad anatomical overview is required rapidly. In a typical whole-body CT run, the scanner first acquires the chest region — lungs, pleura, mediastinum, heart, and chest wall — then advances automatically into the upper abdomen, capturing the liver, gallbladder, spleen, pancreas, adrenal glands, and kidneys, before completing the run through the lower abdomen and pelvis, including the bowel loops, bladder, pelvic vessels, and reproductive organs. When contrast is administered, arterial and portal venous phase images are acquired separately to differentiate hypervascular lesions (e.g. hepatocellular carcinoma, renal cell carcinoma) from background tissue and to allow vascular assessment of the aorta, iliac vessels, and mesenteric circulation. The multi-slice scanner at the Pallady campus produces isotropic sub-millimetre voxels across the entire acquisition volume, enabling multi-planar reconstructions in any plane and three-dimensional vessel or skeletal rendering. This resolution level supports detection of pulmonary nodules down to 3–4 mm in diameter, solid organ lesions from approximately 5–8 mm depending on contrast enhancement, and lymph nodes enlarged above 8–10 mm in short axis — the standard morphological threshold for lymphadenopathy. For oncological staging, the whole-body CT is the primary tool for mapping a known primary tumour and identifying regional or distant spread. It answers the clinical staging questions that determine whether surgery, systemic chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or a combination approach is appropriate. For preventive medicine patients seeking a comprehensive organ survey, the whole-body CT provides a baseline that can be compared with future scans to detect interval changes, though dedicated screening programmes typically supplement CT with organ-specific modalities (MRI liver protocol, breast MRI, transvaginal ultrasound) for higher-sensitivity cancer detection in specific target tissues. Preparation for contrast-enhanced whole-body CT requires fasting for four hours beforehand and, for patients with a history of kidney disease or known contrast allergy, blood creatinine values and discussion with the radiologist. The scan itself lasts under five minutes on the table; the full appointment including preparation and reporting typically takes one to two hours. Results and a written Romanian-language report are available the same day; English summaries can be requested for international patients. For medical tourists visiting Bucharest, Regina Maria's published English medical tourism resources and the convenient metro access at Nicolae Teclu (line M3) make the Pallady campus straightforward to reach. The network's scale — the largest private imaging infrastructure in Romania — ensures CT equipment is maintained to consistent standards across all imaging centre locations.