Nuclear Medicine
Nuclear Medicine is a medical specialty that utilizes radioactive tracers to image and treat a biological process/condition. Nuclear Medicine offers the possibility to detect diseases in early stage and assess response to treatment precisely. Its non-invasive nature allows using it as a powerful diagnostic tool for a wide array of ailments.
The nuclear medicine procedures are well established in many specialties including oncology, urology, pediatrics, endocrinology, cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology and orthopedics.
Advantages of Nuclear Medicine
- Functional imaging
- Functional changes occur before structural changes in pathology
- Early diagnosis and treatment
- Radionuclide therapy – more tumor specific and lesser adverse effects
The Department of Nuclear Medicine, PSG Hospitals, is equipped with state-of-art hybrid PET-CT system – Siemens Biograph Horizon (LSO crystal with TOF) and dual head Gamma camera (SPECT) – Siemens Evo Excel.
Advantages of PET-CT
- All in one imaging
- More accurate diagnosis and treatment response
- Convenient and cost-effective
The department of Nuclear Medicine, PSG Hospitals, provides multitude of diagnostic and therapeutic facilities for both oncologic and non-oncologic indications.
- Diagnostic
- General Nuclear Medicine scans
- Bone scan
- Renal scans
- Thyroid scan
- Parathyroid adenoma scan (Sestamibi)
- Myocardial perfusion scans (Sestamibi)
- Stress – Physical & Pharmacological
- Rest – Nitrate augmented (Myocardial viability test)
- Hepatobiliary scan (HIDA/ BRIDA)
- Gastro-esophageal reflux scan (Milk scan)
- Meckel’s scan
- Direct radionuclide cystogram (DRCG – VUR)
- Lymphoscintigraphy
- Salivary gland scan
- Esophageal transit scan
- Gastric emptying scan
- Colonic transit scan
- Labelled RBC scan
- Lower gastrointestinal bleed
- Liver perfusion
- Multigated acquisition (MUGA)
- Brain SPECT
- ECD – Brain perfusion
- TRODAT – Dopamine transporter imaging
- I-131 Whole body scan
- I-131 MIBG scan
- Liver spleen scan (Reticuloendothelial system)
- Bone marrow scan
- Testicular scan
- Perchlorate discharge test
- DMSA-V whole body scan
PET-CT
- FDG PET-CT Whole body
- FDG PET- CT Brain
- FDG PET- CT Myocardial viability
- F-18 NaF bone scan
- FPSMA PET- CT Whole body
- FDOPA PET- CT Whole body
- FDOPA PET – CT Brain
- FCholine PET-CT
Therapeutic
- Radioiodine (I-131) therapy
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Thyroid cancer
- I-131 MIBG therapy
- Metastatic bone pain palliation
- Sm-153 EDTMP
- Lu-177 EDTMP
- Lu-177 PSMA therapy
- Ac-225 PSMA therapy
- Lu-177 DOTATATE therapy
- Ac-225 DOTATATE therapy
- I-131 Lipiodol therapy
- Y-90 TARE
- Radiosynovectomy