DCAM

Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM), a six-story, 525,000 square-foot building, brings together most of the Medical Center's diagnostic and outpatient treatment services. The building includes:

  • 315 exam rooms
  • 90 rooms for outpatient procedures, including eight operating rooms for ambulatory surgery
  • Areas dedicated to chemotherapy, neurophysiology, heart, and gastrointestinal diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
  • Two helical CT scanners that allow fast, detailed imaging and 3-D reconstruction
  • Three state-of-the-art echoplanar MRI scanners
  • PET/CT scanner for cancer diagnosis and staging
  • A fully digital chest X-ray machine
  • A dedicated breast imaging center with computer-assisted diagnosis
  • Direct digital linkage between radiology's X-ray image archives and clinics
  • Radiation therapy clinical systems and technology that includes four linear accelerators and two wide-bore CT simulators
  • for precise dose planning and delivery. All four linear accelerators are capable of providing intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). Two of the four linear accelerators can also perform image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) as well as stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).
  • Both of the CT simulators are wide-bore units that can comfortably scan patients positioned with treatment set-up accessories, as well as plus-sized patients. State-of-the-art treatment planning software can fuse images from PET, CT, and other diagnostic modalities to facilitate precise planning.

The DCAM is designed to provide the best possible setting for the healthcare of the future, bringing the latest medical technology and scientific know-how to each patient in the most convenient, efficient, and comforting environment imaginable.