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Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis

ONE OF THE MOST SCIENTIFICALLY SOPHISTICATED RADIOLOGICAL CENTERS IN THE WORLD

Established in 1930, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) is internationally recognized for its groundbreaking research—from the development of the first diagnostic test for gallbladder disease to the current development of functional maps of the brain’s sensory and language information-processing areas.

Points of Distinction

Mallinckrodt Institute covers more than 400,000 square feet, comprising its own 13-story building with satellite facilities in Barnes-Jewish, St. Louis Children’s, and Wohl hospitals; the Clinical Sciences Research and East buildings; the Scott Avenue Imaging Center; and the Center for Advanced Medicine. The Institute serves as the Department of Radiology for Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.

Mallinckrodt Institute radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians are Washington University physicians affiliated with the top-ranked Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the NCI-designated Siteman Cancer Center.

More than 600,000 diagnostic and nuclear medicine examinations and interventional radiology procedures are performed annually.

The Institute’s scientists receive $18 million annually in research funding.

Our radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians are consistently listed in The Best Doctors in America.

Mallinckrodt Institute’s four-year resident training program is the largest of its kind in the United States.

Two faculty members have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine—one of the highest honors accorded scientists in the United States.

Milestones

Development of cholecystography, a diagnostic test for gallbladder disease

Development of laminography, a method for imaging in slices that foreshadowed the development of computed tomography

First neuroradiology services in a United States medical center

Collaboration on the design and installation of the first cyclotron located in a United States medical center

Development of positron emission tomography

Installation of first computed tomography scanners for diagnosis of brain abnormalities and for whole body imaging

Installation of Missouri’s first magnetic resonance scanner

First nuclear medicine facility in the United States to interface a minicomputer with a gamma camera

Development of the Midwest area’s first mobile mammography program

Production of novel radiopharmaceutical imaging agents provided basis for breakthrough clinical research studies on breast tumor localization and brain neuroreceptors

Missouri’s first comprehensive interventional radiology suite

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