Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine

Department of

Nuclear Medicine

(THERAPEUTIC)

About the Department:

Nuclear Medicine department is equipped with state of the art equipment including two 64 slice PET-CTs, SPECT-CT,Ga-68 generator and Radioisotope probes . It has facilities of low and high dose Radioisotope therapies .The radio-isotope therapy ward is going to be expanded soon with addition of new rooms.

Nuclear Medicine OPD clinics are conducted thrice a week.

Procedures performed under Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine

Radio-isotope therapies —for Thyroid Cancer , Thyrotoxicosis , Painful Bone Metastasis are conducted regularly in the department.
Radioembolization for HCC , Cholangiocarcinoma etc are performed in the cathlab in collaboration with Interventional Radiology unit.
Shall start Lu-177 –PSMA therapy and Alpha particle therapy for Ca Prostate and PRRT for Neuroendocrine tumours once the ward is expanded.
Radioguided surgery for sentinel node dissection in Ca Breast and Melanoma and Radioguided excision of Parathyroid adenoma are performed in OT.