Nuclear Medicine

What Is Nuclear Medicine?

Nuclear medicine is basically called the imaging technology which is safe and painless.

In Nuclear Medicine Center, expert physicians and qualified technologists use very small amounts of radioactive isotopes (or tracers) to help diagnose and treat a range of diseases such heart disease or cancer.

Unlike the x-ray method which displays a body structure, nuclear medicine helps physicians to get information on body functions part by part.

All nuclear medicine examinations include IV injection, inhalation and/or swallowing of specially formulated tracers with imaging at timed intermissions. Tracers are attracted to particular organs, bones or tissues in the body, which then are observable by special types of cameras. It can be  easily mentioned that human body is not that prone to reactions arising from these tracers. The total amount of radiation a patient gets from a nuclear medicine examination is comparable to that got during a diagnostic x-ray.

Below listed areas are the ones which nuclear medicine examinations are made and offered in Dr.Turka partner hospitals:

• Bone Studies
• Cardiac Studies
• Pulmonary Studies
• Thyroid Studies
• Parathyroid Studies
• Lymph Node Studies
• Gastric/Abdominal Studies
• Hepatobiliary/Liver Studies
• Renal/Kidney Studies
• Tumor Studies
• Brain Studies
• Central Nervous System
• Abscess/Infection Studies
• Non-Thyroid Therapies