PAMF Imaging Services

For your convenience, PAMF offers a full range of imaging services at convenient locations throughout Alameda, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties.

What are Imaging Services?

Medical imaging, also referred to as radiology,  is a medical specialty focused on creating highly detailed pictures of the inside of the body using a variety of advanced imaging technologies, including:

• Automated Whole Breast Ultrasound, a painless procedure for women with dense breasts that can find small cancers that mammography may miss.
• Computed Aided Tomography (CT)
• Digital Mammography, enabling shorter exams and faster results provided in comfortable facilities equipped with private consultation rooms.
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Gastrointestinal Scans (GI scans)
• Ultrasound
• X-ray
• Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

Therapeutic services also are provided by interventional radiologists and radiation oncologists.

Why Choose Us?

At the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, you will find a rare combination of the best equipment in the hands of the best people.  Our imaging centers are accredited by the American College of Radiology (ACR) and meet the highest  standards in medical imaging.

Our imaging services departments are comprised of an unparalleled team of imaging professionals who use the latest technologies and techniques to ensure that the diagnostic information they yield is extremely accurate and helpful in diagnosing your medical problem.

Catching Disease Early

Some diseases, like breast cancer, are so common and insidious that Medicare and private insurance companies have approved programs to screen for the disease. Our breast imaging services provide the highest quality mammography in compliance with the Mammography Quality Standards Act.

Our newest screening service is low-dose CT lung cancer screening, recently approved for high-risk individuals by Medicare and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Our radiologists worked with pulmonologists and other lung cancer specialists to ensure any abnormal findings receive appropriate treatment or follow-up.

Exceptional Service

We provide safe, comfortable settings with the highest standards of safety and excellence. Our pediatric patients are assured the lowest appropriate radiation dose—if their study requires radiation—because our radiologists adhere to the Image Gently® protocols.

Sutter imaging locations have achieved many special designations and certificates of accreditation, including:

• American College of Radiology (ACR) Breast Imaging Centers of Excellence
• ACR CT and MRI program accreditation
• ACR breast ultrasound program accreditation
• ACR stereotactic breast biopsy program accreditation
• ACR mammography program accreditation
• ACR nuclear medicine program accreditation
• American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Get with the Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus designation