Nuclear Medicine

Diagnostic Processes:

  • Lung perfusion-ventilation scintigraphy
  • Brain SPECT
  • Heart and circulatory system scans
  • Renal scintigraphy
  • Bone scintigraphy
  • Thyroid tests
  • Tumor diagnosis and follow-up
  • Hematologic studies
  • Other scintigraphic studies
  •  In addition, sentinel lymph node detection is performed intraoperatively by gamma probe in patients with cancer

 

Treatments:

√ Treatment of Thyroid cancer and hyperthyroidism:

There is a treatment unit for the radioiodine treatment for the patients diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

√ Painful bone metastasis treatment in cancer patients:

Systemic palliative treatment of the bone metastases are carried out in our center. Relief of the pain of patients with wide metastasis is possible with this treatment.

√ Joint Treatment:

Radionuclide synovectomy we apply in our department provides significant  regression in joint dysfunction when applied with other treatment methods or alone.

√ Radioembolisation:

It is a treatment method used in liver cancers. It is performed by injecting radioactive agent inside the liver during angiography for the local treatment of tumor.

√ Neuro endocrine tumor treatment:

Cases that have malignant pheochromocytoma, neuroblastoma, modularly thyroid cancer, unsuitable for surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy or there is recurrence in spite of these treatments are applied high dose I-131 MIBG treatment in our department.