The Nuclear Medicine Department performs the following:

1.              Scanning procedures

o      Thyroid Scan

o      Whole Body Scan for Thyroid Cancer using Iodine-131 or Thaillium-201

o      Radioactive Iodine Uptake (RAIU)

o      Parathyroid Scan

o      Myocardial perfusion scans (Thallium-201 or Tc-99m Sestamibi

o      Bone Scan using HDP

o      Renal scan and GFR determination

o      Testicular Scan

o      Lung perfusion and ventilation scan

o      Gastrointestial bleeding scans (Tagged-RBC Scan)

o      Meckel’s diverticulum scan

o      Gastroesophageal studies

o      Scintimammography (Breast Scan)

o      Liver/Spleen Scan

o      Hepatobiliary Scan

o      Gallium Scan

o      Brain Scan

o      Bone mass densitometry (DEXA)

2.              Radionuclide therapy

o      Radioactive iodine therapy

o      Bone pain palliation in cancer patients with bone metastases

3.              Radioimmunoassay (RIA)