The Department of Radiology provides patient care and resident training in the inpatient and outpatient facilities of the UC Davis Medical Center campus in Sacramento, Calif. Within the hospital is one 4-detector CT unit, two 16-detector CT units, and a soon to be installed 3.0 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, four angiographic suites, four ultrasound examination rooms equipped with state-of-the-art color Doppler units and two additional ultrasound units for portable examinations. 

There are two fluoroscopy rooms for gastrointestinal studies, two uroradiology rooms, and a well-equipped pediatric fluoroscopy suite.  Three radiographic rooms provide in-patient plain films and three dedicated radiographic rooms support the emergency department. The Division of Nuclear Medicine has six whole body, SPECT cameras (single, dual, and triple head cameras), one of which also performs coincidence PET imaging.  Also, the program has an affiliation with the Northern California PET Imaging Center for additional/elective training in PET imaging.  The Division of Nuclear Medicine also has one DEXA camera for bone density testing (bone mineral densitometry) and a thyroid probe camera for thyroid uptake.

The pleasant and modern surroundings of the Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center are dedicated to outpatient imaging.  The Ellison Building contains a fully equipped mammographic suite with three new mammographic units, a breast ultrasound unit, and a dedicated digitalized stereotactic breast biopsy unit.  Five ultrasound rooms contain fully equipped high-resolution computerized sonography units with full color and pulse Doppler capability.  A high-speed helical CT unit provides the capability for helical CT scanning, CT angiography, and three-dimensional CT.  A 1.5 Tesla MRI unit is equipped with state-of-the-art echo-planar hardware and software identical to the in-patient 1.5 Tesla MRI units. The facility also features a brand new 0.8 Tesla open MRI unit that allows for improved patient comfort and access.

The Shriner's Children's Hospital, providing orthopedic, burn, and rehabilitation care free of charge for children, opened in May 1997 on the UC Davis Medical Center campus.  The Department of Radiology provides all plain film interpretation and specialized radiologic support (CT, MR, Nuc Med, US) for Shriner’s Hospital patients.  The department also provides radiology support for an expanding UC Davis Health System's primary-care network with 10 sites currently in the Sacramento region.