The Nuclear Medicine Department of MD Medical is equipped with two General Electric Millennium MPR tomographic gamma cameras. Diagnostic examinations are performed in the presence of a Nuclear Medicine Physician, while heart scintigraphy is conducted in the presence of a Cardiologist. The laboratory has specialized staff and a Medical Physicist to ensure the proper functioning of the equipment. Nuclear Medicine is a specialty of Medicine that uses “open sources of radiation”. In diagnostic applications, radioisotopes that emit gamma radiation are preferably used, administered intravenously or orally, to provide information about the function and metabolism of the body’s organs.
In our Laboratory, the following in-vivo (scintigraphy) examinations are performed:
- Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (SPECT) at rest and stress
- Bone Scintigraphy (whole body, 3-phase and SPECT)
- Renal Scintigraphy (static and dynamic imaging)
Thyroid and Parathyroid Scintigraphy
