The Department of Radiology at Osaka City University was founded in 1949, and celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2009.

The Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology covers a wide range of fields, and plays a critical role in the development of modern medical infrastructure. We expect further development and progress with advances in equipment and technology, and our involvement extends across multiple organ systems and diseases, and a wide range of diagnostic and treatment fields. As a result, members of our department can certainly find many stimulating and rewarding areas of specialization.

Our Diagnostic Radiology section has assembled specialists with a wealth of experience from every relevant field, and focuses its efforts on training of general radiologists. This training enables radiologists to make determinations from a broad spectrum of diagnoses for the cranial, thoracic, and abdominal regions, bones and joints, and so on. Osaka City University Hospital has state-of-the-art equipment, including four computed tomography (CT) and four magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, almost all of which are managed by radiologists in examinations. Our radiologists independently develop the most appropriate protocols tailored to specific diseases, taking the very latest knowledge and examination throughput into account. They also interpret images for almost all examinations, and prepare the diagnostic imaging report.

Our Interventional Radiology (IR) section has specialists from all fields, and we are proud of the outstanding efforts of this team at Osaka City University Hospital, where we perform approximately 900 treatments annually. IR treatments use catheters or puncture needles under angiography or CT guidance, and are less invasive than surgical procedures. We have been extensively performing IR since our professor emeritus, Dr. Ryusaku Yamada, pioneered transcatheter hepatic arterial embolization (TAE). We carry out a range of therapies such as transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) for portal hypertension and balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (B-RTO) for gastric varices, and, as a recent addition, endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) for aortic aneurysm utilizing our hybrid operating room.