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
  • Whole body
  • Triple phase
• Renal scans
  • DTPA
  • EC
  • DMSA
• 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