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