Head of Department: Dr.Ali Reza Tavakoli

Supervisor: Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini Kooh Kamari

Direct Telephone Line: 29124077

Location: first Basement

Nuclear Medicine Services:

Cardiovascular:

Myocardial perfusion with thallium & MIBI by SPECT, GATED, SPECT to evaluate myocardial is chemia & VIABILITY, Radionuclide   Ventriculography in two ways: First pass & Gated Blood

–          Whole body bone scan

Kidney & urinary tract:

–          EC scan, DTPA

–          DMSA scan

–          Kidney scan with & without captopril

–          Check urine reflex from the bladder to the ureter

–          Scrotum scan

Digestive system:

–          Gastro intestinal bleeding scan

–          Liver & spleen scan, subsidiary spleen scan

–          HIDA scan

–          RBC scans for diagnosis of hepatic hemangioma

–          Meckel Diverticulum scan

–          Gastric emptying Scan

–          Gastro esophageal Reflex scan

–          Salivary glands scan

Endocrine:

–          Thyroid scan with technetium

–          MIBE  scan

–          Para thyroid scan for adenoma detection

Respiratory system:

–          Lung perfusion scan for embolism

–          Quantitative lung scan

–          DTV study

Vision Machine:

–          Tear duct scan

–          Eye scan for checking & secularization prosthesis

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Neurology:

ECT Brain scans, with & without acetazolamide for ischemia, Brain scan with thallium, Cisternogram scan, cerebrospinal fluid shunt

Oncology:

–          Whole body scan with octreotide (neuroendocrine tumors)

–          Whole body scan DMSA

–          Whole body scan with 1-131 (thyroid tumors)

–          Whole body scan MIBE

–          Whole body scan with thallium

–          Scan to determine vanguard node (sentinel)  & lymph duct scan

Infection:

–          Whole body scan with gallium

–          Whole body scan with UBI for infection study

Treatment:

–  Treatment of hyperthyroidism with radioactive iodine

–  Treatment of bone pain resulted from metastasis

– Radioisotope synovectomy