Department
Nuclear Medicine
The Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging (NMMI) department provides thyroid cancer clinics, radioactive therapies, gamma camera scans and urea breath tests throughout the working days. The Department is equipped with State-of-the-Art SPECT-CT GE gamma camera, urea breath testing counters, dedicated rooms for radioactive iodine therapies for thyroid cancer patients and all necessary equipment for radiation protection, quality assurance and quality control. The Department is ISO certified and fully compliant with IAEA and PNRA regulations.
Following are the common services provided by the department.
Clinic:
- Thyroid Cancer Clinic
Therapies:
- Iodine-131 for cancer of thyroid.
- Iodine-131 for thyrotoxicosis (Graves’ disease, toxic nodule, toxic MNG etc).
- Strontium-89 for painful bone metastases.
Urea Breath Test:
- Non-imaging test – Urea breath test.
Gamma Camera Scans:
- Thyroid Scan
- Bone Scan
- Viability Cardiac Scan
- Stress Cardiac Scan
- DTPA, MAG3 and DMSA Scans
- HIDA Scan
- VQ Scan
- Parathyroid Scan
- MIBG Scan
- Gastrointestinal Bleeding Scan
- Meckel’s Scan
- Liver Spleen Scan
- Lymphatic Scan of Limbs
- Octerotide Scan
- Liver Hemangioma Scan
- Gastric Emptying Scan
- MUGA Scan
- Vesicoureteric Reflux Scan
- Renal Artery Stenosis Scan