Nuclear medicine is a subspecialty within the field of radiology. It comprises diagnostic tests that result in images of function of the body as well as therapies for conditions such as thyroid cancer.
A small, safe amount of radioactive material is given either through an IV (intravenous) or by mouth. Generally, the patient’s exposure to radiation is similar to that resulting from standard x-ray examinations. Images are then taken based on the device’s detection of energy emitted from the ingested radioactive substance.
Capital Health offers the following nuclear medicine procedures:
- Molecular Breast Imaging (Capital Health was the first in the country to offer molecular breast imaging using the Discovery* NM 750b device from GE Healthcare)
- Bone Scan (Three phase, Limited, Whole body, SPECT)
- Bone Marrow Scan
- Brain Scan (Brain Flow, SPECT, Cisternogram)
- MUGA Scan (Gated Blood pool study)
- GI Bleeding Scan
- Meckels Scan
- Hepatobiliary Scan (Hida Scan) with or without CCK
- Gallium Scan
- Gastric Emptying Study
- Levine/Shunt Patency
- Liver Spleen Scan
- Hemangioma Scan of Liver
- Gallium (Abscess and Tumor Imaging)
- Indium WBC and Tc WBC Scan
- Lymphoscintigraphy (Sentinel node detection)
- Parathyroid Scan (Planar, SPECT)
- Lung Scan (with ventilation or Quantitative)
- Renal Scan (including Lasix, Captopril)
- Nuclear Stress Tests (including pharmacological and viability tests)
- Testicular Scan
- Thyroid Uptake and Scan
- Thyroid Total Body Scan (Mets)
- Iodine -131Therapy (Cancer or Hyperthyroidism)
- Metastron Therapy
- Zevalin Therapy
We also offer Octreoscan, MIBG scan. DATScan etc.