Lisie Cancer Centre Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging

Lisie Cancer Centre Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging

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Nuclear medicine scans provide information on both the anatomy and the physiology of the body and can be used to determine the presence of disease based on the function of the organ or organ system.

Nuclear medicine images are quantitative (measurable) images. These unique images provide information that often cannot be obtained using other imaging procedures and offers the ability to identify disease in early stages when the prognosis is better.

For diagnostic purposes, the radiopharmaceuticals emit photon radiation that is detected by special scanners to produce images.

For therapeutic purposes, the radiopharmaceuticals emit particle radiation which can cause biological damage, injuring or destroying cancer cells.

The two major modalities such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) administer small amounts of radioactive substances to the patient for the diagnostic procedures. As the amount of radiotracer used in nuclear medicine tests are extremely small, the patient’s radiation exposure is minimal. The radiation risk involved in these procedures is very low compared with the potential benefits. There are no known long-term adverse side effects from nuclear medicine procedures, which have been performed for more than 50 years. Rarely, allergic reactions may occur but are extremely rare and usually mild.Nuclear medicine studies have been performed on babies and children of all ages for more than 40 years without any known adverse effects. The functional nature of these exams and the low doses of radiation used to make it a safe and effective diagnostic tool in children as well.

 

PET- CT PROCEDURES

  • Whole-body FDG PET CT
  • Gallium 68 DOTA PET CT 
  • Gallium 68 PSMA PET CT 
  • Gallium 68 FAPI PET CT
  • Gallium 68 Exendin PET CT
  • F-18 Choline PET CT
  • F-18 DOPA PET CT
  • F-18 Fluoride Bone PET CT
  • F-18 FDG brain PET CT
  • Myocardial viability PET CT
  • Whole-body FDG PET infection Imaging

GAMMA CAMERA/SPECT - CT PROCEDURES

  • Three Phase Bone scan
  • Whole-body Bone scan
  • Technetium - 99m Thyroid Scan
  • Whole-body lodine scan
  • MIBI Parathyroid Scan
  • GE Reflux scan
  • Lung Perfusion Scan
  • V/Q scan (Lung Perfusion Ventilation Scan)
  • Adenosine Stress perfusion Cardiac SPECT
  • Stress and Rest Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
  • Meckel's scan.
  • Hepatobiliary (HIDA) scan
  • EC Renal scan
  • DTPA Diuretic Renal scan
  • DMSA Cortical Renal scan
  • Renal Transplant study
  • VUR scan 
  • MIBG scan
  • Lymphoscintigraphy for Lymphedema
  • RBC Labelled Gl Bleed Scan 
  • Liver Spleen Scan 
  • Octreotide Scan 
  • Salivary Scintigraphy
  • Brain Perfusion SPECT

RADIONUCLIDE THERAPY

  • Radioiodine treatment for Thyrotoxicosis
  • Radioiodine therapy for Thyroid Cancer
  • Recombinant TSH Radioiodine therapy for Thyroid Cancer
  • 177 Lutetium DOTA therapy for Neuroendocrine tumours
  • 177 Lutetium PSMA therapy for Prostate Cancer
  • 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

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