Treatments and Services

Gamma cameras couple radioactive isotopes with drugs/chemicals and allow a graphical reconstruction of the physiological and pathological processes taking place in the body. The services we offer for gamma cameras include:

• Bone Scan
• Brain Spect
• Cisternography
• Dacryocystogram
• Gastroesophageal Reflux
• Gastric Emptying Study
• GI Bleed Study
• Cardiac Scan (Myocardial Perfusion Scan, Muga, Viability)
• Hepatobiliary Scintigraphy
• I-131 (Whole-body Scan And MIBG)
• Lung Shunt Quantification
• Lung Ventilation-perfusion Scan
• Liver/Spleen Scan
• Lymphoscintigraphy
• Meckel’s Scan
• Parathyroid Scan
• Sentinel Lymph Node Imaging
• Renal Scans
• Testicular Scan
• Thyroid Scan
• Venography

Radionuclide therapy involves a radioactive drug called a radiopharmaceutical that targets and kills cancer cells. Radionuclide therapies we offer are:

• Radioiodine (I-131) therapy for thyroid cancer
• Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT) with Lu-177 Dotatate for neuroendocrine tumors
• Peptide Receptor Radioligand Therapy (PRRT) With Lu-177 PSMA For castration-resistant prostate cancer
• I-131 MIBG Therapy for neuroblastoma/neuroendocrine tumors
• Transarterial Radioembolization (Tare) with Y-90 Sir Spheres for liver cancers/liver metastasis
• Samarium (153.5m) for bone pain palliation
• Radioactive iodine treatment for hyperthyroidism

Other routine procedures performed by the department include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping (Slnb) and Biopsy For Early Breast Cancers (Done by an intraoperative gamma probe)
• Pharmaceutical/Physical stress-induced Myocardial Perfusion Study for Cardiac Disorders
• Pet Guided Biopsy
• Transarterial Radioembolization (TARE)