The
use of radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases is
called Nuclear Medicine. In the Department of Nuclear Medicine, function
imaging is performed for almost every organ-system related disease. Diagnostic
examinations performed in these centers are the scintigraphic imaging of
thyroid, bone, heart, kidney and many other organs and diseases; at the same
time, some tumor and inflammatory diseases, especially thyroid diseases, are
treated.
Nuclear Medicine Terminology
-
Scintigraphy:
The name given to the procedures performed in nuclear medicine.
- Radiopharmaceuticals: In nuclear medicine, these are chemical drugs which contain small
amounts of radioactive material and can be administered to patients via various
means (oral or intravenous).
- Planar Method: In
nuclear medicine, this is the name of the method by which films are shot on one
plane and from two directions.
- SPECT: Images are taken from around the organ being filmed at an angle of 180
or 360 degrees. Raw images resulting from the shot are processed with the help
of a computer. By this method, the imaged organs are examined in 3D.
- PET: Positron beams
are the radioactivity used here. The other components are like SPECT.
- Tc-99m thyroid scintigraphy
- Parathyroid scintigraphy
- DTPA kidney scintigraphy
-
DMSA kidney
scintigraphy
- Mag3 kidney scintigraphy
- Testicular
scintigraphy
- Bone
scintigraphy
-
Three-phase bone scintigraphy
- Myocardial
perfusion scintigraphy
- Brain
perfusion scintigraphy
-
Gastric emptying time calculation
- Gastroesophageal
reflux
-
Spleen scintigraphy
- Lung
perfusion scintigraphy
- Lung
ventilation scintigraphy
- Dacryoscintigraphy
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