CT Whole Body

Full-body CT scan covering thorax, abdomen, and pelvis on a 128-slice Siemens scanner. Detects tumours, lymph node involvement, vascular abnormalities, and organ pathology across the major body cavities in a single acquisition. Published price: €385.

The full-body CT at Sanador Hospital covers the thorax, abdomen, and pelvis in a single continuous acquisition on the Siemens CT Definition Edge 128-slice scanner, providing a comprehensive cross-sectional survey of the major body cavities and their contents. This is the same platform used for cardiac CT, meaning patients benefit from the speed and resolution of a high-end modern scanner rather than an older multi-slice unit. In a typical full-body CT run, the scanner acquires the chest region first — lungs, mediastinum, pleura, great vessels, 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, bladder, uterus or prostate, and pelvic vessels. When contrast is administered, arterial and portal venous phase images are acquired separately to differentiate highly vascular lesions from background tissue and to assess vascular anatomy. The 128-slice Definition Edge produces isotropic sub-millimetre voxels across the entire field of view, enabling multi-planar reformatting in any plane and three-dimensional rendering of vessels or skeletal structures as required. This resolution level allows detection of lymph nodes enlarged to 8–10 mm or more, small pulmonary nodules down to 3–4 mm in diameter, and solid lesions in solid organs from approximately 5–8 mm depending on their contrast characteristics. Full-body CT at this specification is the standard tool for oncological staging — mapping the primary tumour and any regional or distant spread — as well as for response assessment mid-treatment and surveillance after treatment completion. It is also used in preventive medicine for self-pay patients seeking a detailed organ survey, though structured early-detection screening programmes typically complement a full-body CT with additional modalities (MRI, PET, blood biomarkers) to cover tissue types that CT does not image with equal sensitivity. For international patients, Sanador's published EUR pricing simplifies cost comparison. At €385 for the contrast-enhanced full-body CT, it represents substantially lower pricing than equivalent examinations at Western European private hospitals, where the same study typically costs €600–900. The hospital's 24/7 availability means a booking made on arrival in Bucharest can often be carried out the same day or the following morning without a waiting list. A written report in Romanian is standard; English-language reports can be requested for an additional fee or arranged through the hospital's international patient service. Preparation requires nothing more than fasting for four hours before a contrast examination. Results are available the same day for most scheduled studies.