World-class XRay machine for Wellington: first of its kind in NZ

Two years in the making, our new purpose-built clinic located at 99 Rintoul Street, Wakefield Specialist Medical Centre, replaces the longstanding previous branch at the Wakefield Hospital site in Newtown.

Our new clinic offers Wellington and regional healthcare referrers with access to the very latest in diagnostic imaging and interventional services.

Dr Ian Best, Pacific Radiology’s Managing Radiologist for Wellington Manawatu, highlights Pacific Radiology’s commitment to supporting local health-care needs through expanded services and state-of-the-art imaging equipment.

"This new Wakefield branch demonstrates Pacific Radiology’s long-term commitment to patients and referrers in the Wellington region. Our new high end 3T MRI, advanced CT (including cardiac CT) and other modalities will provide excellent quality imaging and service for our patients."

In addition, Dr Best says that the new high end 3T MRI, advanced CT (including cardiac CT) and other modalities will provide excellent quality imaging and service for our patients.

"Our new x-ray machine in this branch is the first of its kind in New Zealand and only the second installed in the southern hemisphere. We are excited to welcome patients to our new branch, having received great feedback from our early MRI patients in the past couple of weeks. It’s also excellent to be working in a safe base-isolated building."

The new branch also has a multidisciplinary meeting room for referrer meetings locally and Zoom for referrers and colleagues.

Our expanded range of services from the new clinic includes:

• Brand new X-Ray technology – first of its kind in New Zealand and only second in the southern hemisphere. Includes full length spine and leg x-ray imaging.
• 3D breast imaging with tomosynthesis for both screening and diagnostic purposes
• Increased patient comfort with wide-bore MRI and CT machines

Patients and referrers will benefit from :

• The new 3T MRI scanner which is world-class technology and will be great for a wide variety of cancer assessments including prostate cancer. The machine also produces high quality musculoskeletal imaging for sports injuries. New technology makes many sequences quieter than previous generations of MRI scanners.
• The new CT scanner has advanced cardiovascular imaging capability, including fantastic high-resolution assessment of coronary arteries in the heart, and for arteries in the brain including assessing for cerebral aneurysms and post-op assessment of treated aneurysms and other vascular malformations. The CT also has advanced biopsy and injection guidance options.
• Increased patient comfort with wide-bore MRI and CT machines that can be adjusted to specific patient needs.
• Highly detailed accurate images for diagnostic and image-guided interventional procedures
• Faster highly accurate and detailed diagnostic reports for leading health professionals
• Exceptional patient care from highly experienced friendly, caring staff.
• Expansive radiologist expertise

Pacific Radiology's full spectrum of services available at Wakefield includes MRI, CT, Interventional,Fluoroscopy, Ultrasound including MSK and Obstetrics and Xray services. . The new Wakefield clinic complements the full range of Pacific Radiology's specialist imaging services delivered throughout the Wellington / Manawatu (click here to find a clinic near you)