Diagnostic nuclear medicine
In nuclear medicine diagnostics, images are recorded using the so-called scintigraphies. Open radioactive substances are used in very low levels of radioactivity. The radiation exposure is very small - as a rule, it is even smaller than the radiation that patient is exposed to during a computed tomography (CT). The most important method is planar scintigraphy and scintigraphy in cross-section technique, the so-called "SPECT" technique.
Thyroid / parathyroid gland
- Thyroid scintigraphy
- Sonography
- Fine needle punching
- Uptake measurement
- Secondary thyroid scintigraphy
Skeleton
- Single and multi-phase skeletal scintigraphy (osteitis, arthritis, TEP-loosening)
Kidney
- Renal parenchyma imaging
- Side-separated clearance
- Function display of parts
- Evaluation of the discharge conditions
- Function under captopril (renal artery stenosis diagnostics)
- Reflux test
Heart
- Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and function scintigraphy in rest and stress conditions
Lungs
- Scintigraphy of lungs perfusion and ventilation
Gastrointestinal tract
- Search for bleeding source
- Search for Meckel‘s diverticulum
CNS
- Diagnistics of Parkinson‘s desease with DaTSCAN.
Inflammatory diagnostics
- Granulocyte scintigraphy
Tumor locomotion, metastasis detection
- Octreotide scintigraphy (detection of carcinoids and neuroendocrine tumors)
- MIBG scintigraphy (detection of adrenal gland tumors)
- Skeletal scintigraphy
Parathyroid gland
- Parathyroid gland scinigraphy (search for adenoma)
Lymphatic system
- Imaging of the sentinel lymph node (scintigraphy for SLN-positive mamma, melanoma)
- Lymphatic drainage scintigraphy