Division ServicesThe Division of Nuclear Medicine laboratories provide full diagnostic and therapeutic services with radioactive materials. Usual procedures include studies such as radionuclide imaging and functional studies of the kidney, lung, bone, liver, hepatobiliary system, infection, and thyroid. Tumor imaging is provided with radioactive gallium, monoclonal antibodies, MIBG, and octreoscan. Studies of the gastrointestinal tract include quantitative gastric and esophageal emptying studies, and studies for Meckel's diverticulum or GI bleeding. Brain imaging includes traditional brain scans, cisternograms, and SPECT studies of cerebral blood flow. Positron emission tomography (PET) is available using the latest technology, PET-CT. PET-CT combines PET and CT in a single machine, which is used to provide information about metabolism linked to CT anatomy in a single exam. Therapeutic procedures include treatment of thyrotoxicosis and thyroid cancer with radioactive iodine, and radioimmuno-therapy for Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and therapy for bone pain due to bone metastases. |