Florida Radiological Society’s Members-in-Training

Since 2001, Rose Radiology Centers, Inc., has been providing high-quality radiologic services to patients in Florida. Maintaining offices in such areas a Tampa, Sarasota, and St. Petersburg, the company is accredited by the American College of Radiology. Rose Radiology’s physicians also belong to the Florida Radiological Society.

Committed to advancing the science of radiology, improving patient care, and expanding radiologist education, the Florida Radiological Society (FRS) is a chapter of the American College of Radiologists. While the organization welcomes regular members, it also maintains a Resident and Fellows’ Section for members-in-training. These members-in-training have the opportunity to mold the future of the specialty. Resident members-in-training are also given automatic membership into the ACR.

The Resident and Fellows’ Section was pioneered by Dr. Doug Hornsby. Recognizing the benefits that residents and fellows could reap from a membership with the FRS, Dr. Hornsby created the unique section and option. Current members-in-training have multiple opportunities to work with leading radiologists both in the state and around the nation. They are also free to attend the FRS Annual Meeting, join various fellowship programs offered by the organization, and mentor medical students who are interested in the field.

Scanning Technology - Computed Tomography

Rose Radiology provides state-of-the-art radiological services to patients throughout the central west coast of Florida. The technologies available through Rose Radiology include high-speed, multi-slice computed tomography scanners.

When doctors order computed tomography (CT) scans, they do so to secure accurate and detailed images of the body’s internal tissues. CT technologies yield such images by using X-rays to produce a sequence of pictures, each representing a “slice” of tissue. Doctors can examine an individual two-dimensional slice or, by combining the slices together, examine three-dimensional representations.

Medical professionals rely on information from CT scans to diagnose and track a wide variety of conditions, including cancer, traumas like broken bones, and even heart disease. During the procedure, patients lie on a table that proceeds through the “eye” of an X-ray machine. On occasion, patients may be administered a dye that produces contrast in the images, making them easier to interpret.

CT scan results appear electronically and are interpreted by trained radiologists, who document their findings and make them available to the appropriate doctors.

Paul Y. Hahn, M.D., has joined Rose Radiology as a Staff Radiologist

PALM HARBOR, FLORIDA, May 11th, 2016 – Rose Radiology Centers, Inc., is pleased to announce that Paul Y. Hahn, M.D., has joined the practice of Rose Radiology as a Staff Radiologist and as one of our Medical Directors. Dr. Hahn brings with him outstanding credentials and is certainly an asset to the entire staff at Rose Radiology. He is a Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Radiology and skilled in all aspects of Diagnostic Imaging including MRI, CT, Mammography, Ultrasound and X-ray.

Dr. Hahn is originally from Iowa City, Iowa but lived in several cities as a child including Toledo, Ohio and Omaha, Nebraska. Dr. Hahn received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was awarded his Medical Degree from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE in 1992. Dr. Hahn conducted and completed his Radiology Residency at Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Dr. Hahn later attend the University of Iowa were he completed his fellowship in Neuroradiology in 1998.  After completing his fellowship, Dr. Hahn served as a Neuroradiolgy Instructor for the Department of Radiology at the University of Iowa from 1998 to 1999.

Dr. Hahn has worked in different capacities before joining the professional staff at Rose Radiology in May, 2016. His goal is to provide the highest quality and superior Radiology interpretations and procedures for Rose Radiology in an outpatient setting. He strives for cost-efficient, timely, and personalized services and encourages communications with referring colleagues.

How MRIs Work

For 15 years, Rose Radiology Centers, Inc., has been providing a high professional standard of imaging services to patients throughout Florida. Among its many imaging capabilities, Rose Radiology offers traditional MRIs as well as state-of-the-art open TruScan MRIs.

MRI stands for “magnet resonance imaging” and is a process by which electromagnets act in conjunction with radio waves to produce highly accurate images of body parts by stimulating protons in water and fat. Unlike CT and PET scans, MRIs do not rely on radiation. Doctors use MRIs to diagnose many illnesses, though the technology is particularly adept at producing pictures of the brain and other nervous structures.

During an MRI scan, a patient will lay on a flat surface, which is then placed inside an MRI tube. Depending on the goals of the procedure, the patient will spend anywhere from 20 to 90 minutes in the tube while technicians conduct the scan. Occasionally, patients may be administered a safe contrast agent intravenously to help improve picture quality.

For more information about MRIs, please visit roseradiology.com/mri.htm.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) - How it Works

At Rose Radiology, a team of board-certified physicians employs state-of-the-art and traditional equipment to offer imaging and treatment services. For its patients in need of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Rose Radiology maintains two cardiovascular MRI machines as well as an upright open MRI system.

Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, uses radio waves and magnetic fields to create detailed images of human body structures. Each MRI machine works via two large magnets, the first of which causes all water molecules in the body to align on a north or south axis. The machine then activates and deactivates the second magnet in a pulsing sequence, which causes the hydrogen nuclei in each molecule to re-align and then to relax.

These changes in alignment generate radio waves that are detectable via a specialized and highly sensitive scanner embedded in the MRI machine. The scanner can detect the different rates at which the nuclei of different body tissues re-align, and these differences allow the system to generate images that show contrast between tissue types. Such images allow physicians to identify tumors and other structural abnormalities in the human body.