Nuclear medicine is a medical specialty that uses small amounts of radioactive substances to diagnose and treat diseases. It provides detailed imaging of organ function and structure, while also offering targeted therapies for specific conditions, such as cancer.

Procedures & Treatments

Nuclear medicine, in a sense, is “radiology done inside out” or “endoradiology” because it records radiation emitting from within the body rather than radiation that is generated by external sources like X-rays. In addition, nuclear medicine scans differ from radiology as the emphasis is not on imaging anatomy but the function and for such reason, it is called a physiological imaging modality. Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography or SPECT and Positron Emission Tomography or PET scans are the two most common imaging modalities in nuclear medicine

Heart:

• Myocardial viability PET and SPECT
• Adenosine Stress perfusion scan
• Stress Dobutamine Myocardial MIBI perfusion SPECT
• Stress and rest myocardial perfusion SPECT
• MUGA scan

Brain:

• FDG brain PET CT
• F-18 DOPA PET CT
• Brain perfusion SPECT
• Ictal and interIctal SPECT
• Trodat SPECT
• Tumour Viability Study

Skeletal System:

• Three Phase Bone scan
• Whole body Bone scan
• F18 Fluoride Bone PET CT.
• FDG PET prosthesis/infection Imaging.
• Graft viability imaging

Gastrointestinal:

• Salivary scan
• GE Reflux scan
• Gastric Emptying Time
• RBC - GI Bleed scan
• Meckel's scan
• Whole body DOTA PET CT

Hepatobiliary/Liver - Spleen:

• Liver Spleen scan
• RBC Blood pool scan
• Hepatobiliary (HIDA) scan
• MAA Sunt

Genitourinary:

• Diuretic DTPA Renal scan
• GFR Estimation
• EC Renal scan (ERPF)
• DMSA Cortical Renal scan
• Captopril Renal scan
• VU Reflux study
• Renal Transplant study
• Lymphoscintigraphy for Chyluria
• Whole body PSMA PET CT

Endocrine:

• Technetium Thyroid scan
• MIBI Thyroid scan
• MIBI Parathyroid Scan
• MIBG scan
• Octreotide SPECT CT

Oncology:

• Whole body FDG PET CT
• Whole body Gallium 68 DOTA scan
• Whole body Gallium 68 PSMA scan
• F-18 Choline PET CT
• Whole body iodine scan
• Post therapy scan
• F-18 DOPA PET CT
• Senthinal lymphoscintrigrapy
• Scintimammography
• HSA scan for protein leak
• Infection Imaging:
• Whole body FDG PET infection Imaging
• Gallium 67 scan
• 99mTc Ubiquicidin Imaging
• Respiratory:
• Lung Perfusion Scan
• Ventilation - Perfusion (V/Q) scan
• Quantitative lung ventilation
• Mucociliary clearance study
• Ventilation

Blood:

• Lymphoscintigraphy for Lymphoedema.
• Sentinel Node Mapping

Radionuclide Therapy:

• Radio lodine treatment for Thyrotoxicosis ( < 10 mci)
• Radio lodine treatment for Thyrotoxicosis ( > 10 mci)
• Radioiodine therapy for Ca. Thyroid ( <100 mci )
• Radioiodine therapy for Ca. Thyroid ( >100 mci )
• rTSH Radioiodine therapy for Ca thyroid
• 177 Lutetium DOTA therapy for Neuroendocrine tumors.
• 177 Lutetium PSMA therapy for Ca. Prostate
• Samarium Skeletal Pain Palliative Therapy
• 90 Yttrium Radiation Synovectomy.
• 131 Iodine Lipidiol TARE therapy for HCC.
• 90 Yttrium Lipidiol TARE therapy
• Strontium 89 skeletal pain palliative therapy

CT Contrast (PET CT):

• Omnipaque
• Visipaque
• Oral contrast (PET CT)