Modular imaging suites
Modular Imaging Suites for CT, MRI, and PET/CT
Purpose-built, relocatable structures. Our modular imaging suites give you a fully configured, surface-level, CT, MRI, or PET/CT environment, on your site, built around your workflow. Each suite is configured around your facility’s imaging needs.
Modular imaging
What is a modular imaging suite?
A modular imaging suite is a self-contained imaging facility, placed outside your facility. It is placed on grade and connected to your facility’s utilities. The suite provides a dedicated imaging environment and can be relocated as your needs change, with planning appropriate to the system and site.
Your modality, scanner, patient flow, and site requirements guide the layout and specifications.
Compare your options
Mobile, modular, or in-house?
It helps to think about imaging infrastructure as a spectrum.
Mobile
A mobile imaging unit can stay at one facility or travel between sites on a scheduled route. It supports temporary coverage or ongoing capacity, with rental, lease, and staffing options based on your needs.
- Portability
- Easiest to relocate. Moving a mobile coach is a logistics call.
- Schedule
- Dedicated parked access or a shared routed schedule.
- Timeline and capital
- No permanent infrastructure.
The space in between
Modular
Modular imaging suites occupy the space in between. More permanent than a mobile program and more patient-experience-focused than a coach environment. Faster and more capital-efficient than new construction. And because the suite stays on your site, your team owns the schedule, the workflow, and the patient relationship.
- Portability
- Relocatable, though moving a suite, especially high-field MRI, is a more involved process.
- Schedule
- Your team owns the schedule, the workflow, and the patient relationship.
- Timeline and capital
- Faster and more capital-efficient than new construction.
In-house
In-house construction gives you permanence and full facility integration. It also requires capital, long timelines, and a fixed commitment to that footprint.
- Portability
- A fixed commitment to that footprint.
- Schedule
- Entirely yours, with permanence and full facility integration.
- Timeline and capital
- Requires capital and long timelines.
One thing worth stating plainly
Mobile is more easily relocated than modular. Moving a mobile coach is a logistics call. Moving a modular suite, especially one housing a high-field MRI, is a more involved process. Modular offers long-term flexibility compared to a permanent building, but it is not a substitute for the day-to-day portability that mobile provides. We offer both because they serve different needs.
CT, MRI, and PET/CT
Three modalities, configured to your needs
Shared Medical Services modular imaging suites are available in CT, MRI, and PET/CT. Each modality has different structural, shielding, and workflow requirements, so each suite is specified accordingly.
CT
Modular CT
Modular CT imaging suite
CT suites are among the most flexible modular configurations we offer. The layout options are broad, site requirements are generally straightforward, and the suite can be tailored for high-throughput diagnostic work, trauma support, oncology, or general radiology. Radiation safety construction is standard throughout.
Interiors are fully customizable. Some clients want a clean, clinical look. Others want large wall murals and natural light features that put patients at ease the moment they walk in.
What a CT suite typically includes
- High-slice CT scanner compatibility
- Radiation-shielded scan room
- Dedicated control room with direct sightline to the scanner
- Custom flooring and interior finish options
- Wall murals and natural light features
- Integrated HVAC
- ADA-compliant accessibility
Modular MRI
Modular MRI imaging suite
MRI suites require a more precise build. The scan room incorporates multilayer RF shielding, shielded doors and windows, MR-compliant lighting, and an HVAC system specified for the environmental conditions MRI demands. Shared Medical Services modular MRI suites support configurations up to 3T, including wide-bore options.
The patient environment matters here more than in almost any other modality. Wide pathways, calming interiors, and large murals do real clinical work. They reduce anxiety, support patient stillness, and ultimately affect image quality. We think about the interior of a modular MRI suite the same way a well-designed fixed-site room does.
What an MRI suite typically includes
- Scanner configurations up to 3T, including wide-bore
- Multilayer RF shielding throughout
- Double-shielded doors and windows with sound insulation
- MR-compliant lighting and power supplies
- Dedicated control room with leaded glass scan window
- Changing room and patient prep area
- HVAC specified for MRI environmental requirements
- ADA-compliant accessibility
MRI
PET/CT
Modular PET/CT
Modular PET/CT imaging suite
PET/CT is the most workflow-complex configuration we offer. Full nuclear medicine workflow needs more than a scan room and a control room. It needs space for radiopharmaceutical handling, patient uptake, and the radiation safety infrastructure that governs all of it. Shared Medical Services modular PET/CT suites are built for that complete workflow. Each suite includes a shielded hot lab, uptake rooms with lead-shielded walls and lead-lined doors, and a control room.
What a PET/CT suite typically includes
- Integrated hot lab
- Uptake rooms with lead-shielded walls and lead-lined doors
- Lead shielding throughout, scaled to PET/CT requirements
- Control room with shielded window
- Lockable cabinetry for isotope storage and phantom containers
- Zoned HVAC for scan room, control, and uptake areas
- ADA-compliant accessibility