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Nuclear Medicine

The Department of Nuclear Medicine in BIACH & RI was started in the year 2007 with the aim of providing newer clinical and imaging modalities on par with other departments of national eminence.

Department of Nuclear medicine offers a wide spectrum of nuclear medicine imaging services including a full gamut of imaging procedures including conventional gamma camera imaging as well as new PET-CT technology.

Department of Nuclear medicine also offers various therapeutic applications of radioisotopes such as Radioiodine therapy, MIBG (1-131) therapy and Samarium-153 therapy.

Department of Nuclear medicine also produces radioisotopes (18F-FDG) required for PET-CT imaging with its in-house cyclotron facility and caters need of radioisotopes to other PET-CT centers in and outside Hyderabad city.

 

Services and Facilities:

Services

Diagnostic

Gamma camera scans

PET-CT

Therapeutic

Radioiodine therapy for thyroid cancer.

Radioiodine therapy for thryrotoxicosis.

Samarium153 / strontium-89 therapy for bone pain palliation.

MIBG therapy.

Others:

FDG Supply and other PET tracers.

 

Facilities

Dual Head Gamma Camera – GE Millenium MG

A state of the art - compact, all-purpose multi-geometry gamma camera... the Millennium MG performs a full range of nuclear imaging studies and equips you with unsurpassed clinical flexibility, thus providing strong diagnostic confidence.

The Nuclear Medicine Department is equipped with the Millennium - MG dual head variable geometry all digital SPECT gamma camera from GE Medical Systems. One of the best gamma cameras available today, the Millennium - MG, performs a full range of nuclear imaging studies with unsurpassed clinical flexibility, thus providing strong diagnostic confidence. It is designed to meet the clinical requirements of the future as effortlessly as it meets those of today. This provides quick examination with least patient discomfort. The forte of Nuclear Medicine has always been the ability to give accurate information about the functional status of an organ. The information provided gives invaluable help and direction to the treating doctors.

      

 

PET-CT with 16 slice CT: GE Discovery STE

Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital has added the latest GE Discovery STE PET/CT system to their range of world-class imaging systems. The Discovery STE is a new molecular imaging system designed to help doctors detect, diagnose and monitor treatment of cancer and other diseases, including heart disease and neurological disease, more accurately and earlier in the disease process.

The Discovery STE is a fusion of the high-speed, high-resolution capabilities of GE’s computed tomography (CT) scanner with the metabolic and physiologic capabilities of its industry leading positron emission tomography (PET) scanner. PET (Positron Emission Tomography) and CT (Computed Tomography) scans are both standard imaging tools that physicians use to pinpoint disease states in the body. A PET scan demonstrates the biological function of the body before anatomical changes take place, while the CT scan provides information about the body's anatomy such as size, shape and location. By combining these two scanning technologies, a PET/CT scan enables physicians to more accurately diagnose and identify cancer, heart disease and brain disorders.

The Discovery STE provides physicians with a wide range of clinically relevant capabilities and true hybrid imaging flexibility. It has a balanced system design of high sensitivity, resolution and count-rate performance.

Its powerful processing & acquisition capabilities make Discovery STE the ideal system for growing procedure demands in neurology and cardiology, without sacrificing the requirements of a premier oncology system.

A PET/CT image allows physicians to see cancer earlier, localize and personalize treatment and carefully monitor that treatment. It's the tool of choice for oncology applications today.

 

Medical Cyclotron: GE PET Trace

BIACH & RI has also a medical cyclotron facility. Medical cyclotron provides a high quality isotope production facility which produces a variety of PET-Tracers also called as radioactive molecules which are used for diagnosis of various illnesses. These molecules are injected intravenously and images are acquired using a PET-CT scanner.

The facility currently houses a General Electric PETtrace Cyclotron. The GE PETtrace is an automated compact self-shielded medical cyclotron capable of producing 16.5 MeV protons. The high-energy cyclotron provides for a high yield [18F-]-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) production which can cater the need of FDG to PET-CT centers in entire south India.

 

Isolated ward for radioiodine therapy

A radio iodine therapy ward has also been integrated within the department of nuclear medicine that is used for treatment of thyroid cancer patients with radioactive iodine. The ward is consisting of three isolation rooms. So three patients can be treated at the same time in this facility.

Over 500 thyroid cancer patients are already treated with radioiodine at Dept of nuclear medicine, BIACH & RI.

Not only patients from Andhra Pradesh, but also from other states like Karnataka, Maharashtra and Orissa are benefited due to this facility.

MIBG therapy for neuroendocrine tumors is also available here.

 

Staff :

The department is headed by highly qualified Nuclear Medicine Physician. Department has five well experienced nuclear medicine technologists, two certified and experienced CT technologists, Radio chemists and Nursing staff.