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Lake Charles, LA - Southwest Louisiana Imaging at 1601 Country Club Rd has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) as the result of a recent survey by the American College of Radiology (ACR).
Southwest Louisiana Imaging offers advanced MRI technology, using the MAGNETOM® Verio Large Bore 3T MRI scanner. The MAGNETOM Verio 3T, the only one of its kind in the area, offers excellent image quality, superb diagnostic capabilities, and exceptional patient comfort with a large, patient-friendly 70cm opening.
The ACR, headquartered in Reston, VA., awards accreditation to facilities for the achievement of high practice standards after a peer-evaluation of the practices. Evaluations are conducted by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field.
The ACR is a national organization serving more than 32,000 diagnostic and interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists, and nuclear medicine and medical physicists with programs focusing on the practice of medical imaging and radiation oncology and the delivery of comprehensive health care services.
For more information call Southwest Louisiana Imaging at 439-7778.
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