Description : Dr. Jankharia's Imaging Centre began as Dr. Jankharia's X-ray clinic in Girgaum, in Central Mumbai in 1969, on Dhanteras day with a Siemens 300 mA X-ray machine with a single tube, which was also used for fluoroscopy. In 1985, it became one of the first centres in the city to have an image intensifier. From that time onwards, the clinic became the leading centre for barium studies in Mumbai and is currently the premier institute for small bowel enema (enteroclysis) studies.

In 2001, the x-ray facility was upgraded to the first digital X-ray setup in Western and Northern India, with the installation of the Agfa ADR-Solo.

In 1986, the centre acquired a state-of-the-art ALOKA 630 ultrasound scanner. Dr. Bijal Jankharia joined the centre in 1996 to take care of ultrasound and mammography. We now have a Logiq 500 from Wipro-GE, and in 2002, we added a 4D ultrasound scanner, the Voluson 730, also from Wipro-GE. The centre’s first mammography unit was from GENDEX, USA and was installed in 1996, to be replaced by a SIEMENS MAMMOMAT in 2005. To complete the “women’s imaging” setup, Western India’s first bone denstiometry scanner, from Hologic, was installed in 1997, subsequently upgraded to a whole body fan beam system from GE Lunar, in 2002.

The centre underwent a sea change in September 1995, with the acquisition of a Siemens AR.C CT scanner that was installed in Sir Hurkisondas Nurrottumdas Hospital & Research Centre. Dr. Bhavin Jankharia joined JIC to look after the CT scanner. In 1996, the CT scan centre had the privilege of being the first centre in India to start teleradiology facilities, which allowed transfer of CT scan images from the CT centre to Dr. Jankharia's residence. In 1999, the CT scanner was upgraded to a state-of-the-art spiral CT scanner, the AR.*, also from Siemens. In Sept 2003, we moved our spiral CT to new premises at Nishat Business Centre, 2 blocks away from our main clinic, on Sardar V P Rd, towards Chowpatty. In Sept 2005, we acquired the first 64-slice CT scanner in Asia and currently perform over a 100 cardiac CT procedures a month. More information is available at www.ctcardiac.com

To complete our dental imaging setup, an OPG machine, the Rotograph Plus from Villa India, was installed in 2000.

We installed the first open MRI system in Mumbai, 0.2T VIVA from Siemens. However, since the strength severely limited its utility and speed, in 2003, this was upgraded to a state-of-the-art 1.5T system, the Sonata, also from Siemens. The scanner is especially excellent for cardiac and advanced neuro studies. For the neuro studies, Dr. Meher Ursekar, who was earlier with Bombay Hospital and is among the best neuroradiologists in the country, joined us. We have also added the unique capabilities of performing stress MRI using a special axial loading device from Dynawell and carotid plaque imaging, using a special coil from Machnet, NL. In Nov 2005, we acquired a special combined, high-resolution pediatric brain and spine coil to enhance our pediatric neuroradiology work.

Jankharia Imaging has also entered into a strategic alliance with Pulse Clinic, formed by Drs. Vimal Someshwawr, Gireesh Warawedkar and Rahul Sheth, for the interpretation of vascular studies on the Ultra-Fast MRI and Ultra-Fast CT scanners.

In Oct 2005, Jankharia Imaging became the first private centre in India to acquire a radiofrequency ablation (RFA) machine from RITA Medical Systems, to perform radiofrequency ablation of lung, liver and bone tumors. We have also started a pain management centre using image-guided nerve blocks, etc.

Currently, the following doctors are part of our team. Meher Ursekar, Somesh Lala, Pradeep Krishnan, Kishore Rajpal, Devang Desai, Vishal Pipariya, Preeti Neve and Pooja Gupta.