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Inha University Hospital is leading state-of-the-art medical research and technology development. and also making effort to improve public health. As a part of such effort, Inha University Hospital is equipped with the most advanced medical instruments as like a Robot cyber knife, PET-CT, the latest model in MRI, and MDCT. Inha University Hospital started to use electronic medical record and Full PACS for the first time in Korea and they enable for us to discard films and papers. Using advanced medical system, we provide comfortable and accurate medical service to patients, and also at the same time conduct medical research to improve quality of medical service.
No pain, No bleeding, 4-Dimensional Robotic CyberKnife Radiosurgery
Inha University Hospital is proud to be the first hospital in South Korea to install 4th generation and 4-dimensional Robotic CyberKnife Radiosurgery system for the treatment of various cancers and benign lesions in the body and central nervous system, many of which have been diagnosed as inoperable, unresectable and oligo-metastatic disease.
CyberKnife radiosurgery system delivers hundreds of finely collimated radiation beam to the tumor and effectively eradicated tumor cells without pain, bleeding, and anesthesia. With Synchrony system installation, patients no longer have to hold their breath during a procedure because it simultaneously tracks both the movement of the tumor and breathing patterns of the patient and treatment complications are reduced. Furthermore, 4-dimensional planning system can provide more precise calculation of region of interest and normal organ radiation dose. The CyberKnife, a robotic radiosurgery system, has many advantages such as no recovery time, simple outpatient treatment process, extremely accurate radiation targeting, higher doses of radiation, minimal damage to healthy tissue, and immediate resumption of normal daily activities, compared to Gammaknife radiosurgery as well as conventional radiation therapy such as tomotherapy and image guided radiation therapy. It allows physicians to provide a precise, targeted, painless therapy alternative to open surgery and also a treatment option for tumors that are otherwise untreatable. Cyber Knife will give patients new hope for the treatment of tumors and untreatable lesions with previous technology.
The Third Generation Ultrasound Therapy for Cancer, HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Therapy System)
Robot Cyber Knife and starting to operate HIFU, Inha University Hospital is emerged as the center of cancer treatment. The HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound instrument) is an epoch-making surgery-free procedure for treating cancer without surgery. Malignant tissues are burnt accurately by focusing a high-intensity ultrasound on the cancer tissues. This HIFU instrument selectively necrotizes cancerous tissues, referred to as the HIFU knife because the treated area looks as if the cancer has been cut out with a knife. The advantages of this treatment include the absence of scarring, bleeding or secondary infection, as the body is not incised and only ultrasound irradiation from the outside of the body is used. This technology has left numerous patients highly satisfied.
HIFU acquires popularity to U.S.A, Europe, Japan and China these days, and the third generation HIFU is approved by the FDA.
The State-of-the-Art PET-CT (Positron Emission Tomography - Computed Tomography) for early diagnosis of cancer
The department of Nuclear Medicine at Inha University Hospital operates PET-CT. PET is an item of nuclear medicine equipment that can image our body’s metabolic state after administrating a radiopharmaceutical composed of a glucose analogue and a positron-emitting radioisotope. This examination detects the metabolic abnormalities that occur ahead of anatomical alterations in the process of disease progression. PET/CT is the latest imaging tool that can detect diseases earlier than other imaging modalities by combining the benefits of PET and CT. PET can detect abnormalities of the body’s metabolic activity, while CT can detect anatomic abnormalities. As such, PET/CT's great strengths have contributed to the simplification of the diagnosis process, the detection of cancer at an early stage, and the evaluation of distant metastasis, more accurate and faster tumor localization than PET, simultaneous diagnosis and the staging of cancer, and the direct application of test results to therapy.
The Latest and Up-graded MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
As the MRI that is operated in Radiology at Inha University is the latest one, it applied various imaging techniques that are not used before. It can detect brain disease at an early stage. Also, it applied ASSET and FIESTA techniques, it can be possible to examine abdomen quickly without holding breath. As the MRI with advanced techniques contributes to expanding diagnosis field and diagnosis at an early stage and provides direct treatments, we provide the highest level of medical treatment and convenience to patients.
EMR (Electronic Medical Record System)
The past, medical record is written on paper, but EMR stored all the medical record electronically. It includes all documents that occurred by treatment of patients such as examination results, surgery record, basic information of patients and condition admission record, etc. With EMR system, we manage the medical record electronically, and it can be possible to find patients’ information rapidly at once.
PACS SYSTEM (Picture Archiving and Communication System)
PACS stores, retrieves and distribute medical images electronically in digital, therefore there is no need for hard-copy based means of managing medical images, such as film archives. The advantages of PACS are that the patients do not need to take a picture when they are transferred from other hospitals and also there is no possibility of losing the images. Besides, it can improves patients’ convenience and quality of medical treatment by enabling the access of medical images remotely,.
