Nuclear Medicine

Nuclear medicine is a specialty of medicine that uses "open sources of radiation" for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
Diagnostic applications preferably use radioisotopes, which emit gamma radiation and are administered intravenously or orally, in order to obtain information on the function and metabolism of organs in the human body.

The nuclear medicine department of MDmedical is equipped with two scanners

γ-camera General Electric Millenium MPR and is fully staffed with medical personnel specialized in Nuclear Medicine treatments, technologists, and a Medical Physicist.

The following in-vivo (scintigraphy) tests are performed in our laboratory:

• Myocardial scintigraphy (at fatigue and at rest)
• Bone scintigraphy (simple, 3 phase and SPECT)
• Kidney scintigraphy (static and dynamic imaging) and renal function
• Thyroid gland scintigraphy - parathyroid
• Lung scintigraphy (perfusion and airflow)
• Scintigraphy Cystography, Liver - spleen - bile duct - adrenal gland