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Nuclear Medicine

About the Specialty

Illuminating Tomorrow's Diagnostics at the Department of Nuclear Medicine, MGMCH. The Department of Nuclear Medicine is a dedicated department for radioactive tracers (radiopharmaceuticals) to assess bodily functions and to diagnose and treat disease.

Nuclear Medicine

The experts here use specially designed SPECT-CT and PET-CT cameras that allow them to track the path of these radioactive tracers. Our experts use nuclear medicine tests to diagnose, evaluate, and treat various diseases like cancer, heart disease, gastrointestinal, endocrine, or neurological disorders.

The Department of Nuclear Medicine aims to find diseases at the earliest stage possible. It works towards finding the target treatment for specified cells in the body. The experts here ensure that the given medicine is responding in the correct manner or not.

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HOD Massege

The Department of Nuclear Medicine offers postgraduate MD Nuclear medicine and MSc. Nuclear Medicine technology programmes in the Radiation Therapy and Nuclear Medicine. The department strives to maintain academic excellence through research in education, learning, training, diagnosis and cancer therapy.

Dr. Karan Singh Peepre

Professor & Head

Department of Nuclear Medicine

The department is having positron emission tomography and computerized tomography (PET-CT), SPECT, gamma camera imaging of neurological disorder, thyroid cancer and hyperthyroidism, pulmonary embolism, myocardial perfusion imaging, renal scintigraphy, bone scan. PET-CT detect various cancer primary as well as metastatic lesions in the body. PET-CT is very valuable for the diagnoses of myocardial viability in the management of heart attack patient for further management like angiography, angioplasty and coronary artery bypass surgery. The academic excellence, research and community engagement.

The Nuclear Medicine is developing science in the medical field and its mission and vision is to develop dynamic, self-dependent and international standard of diagnoses, treatment and research of various diseases specially thyroid, heart, various malignancies, GIT disorders, kidney disease at international standard with radiation protection with an aim to established a healthy, disease-free society.

We have organized three conferences (National CME and Seminars on Nuclear cardiology and high dose therapy radionuclide bone pain palliation and 14th Nuclear cardiological Society of India Conference from 4th & 5th November 2023 with grand success and awarded Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha Oration Award to Dr. Nagabhushan Seshadri MBBS, DRM, DNB, FRCP, Consultant Nuclear Medicine, (Liverpool UK). The Nuclear Medicine Department is continuing to grow stronger in research and publications also. The Department will use 2nd PET-CT machine, Gallium Generator and new Bone Pain Palliation, Radio-Nuclides very soon. It is through sound interpersonal relations that the department has grown to this level and is geared to achieving even greater heights.

 

Specialty Clinics

Consultative Care

Our team has experienced doctors with specialized knowledge in Nuclear Medicine. With the help of all members of our team, we are able to deliver the best consultative care to our patients with various diseases like cancer, heart disease, gastrointestinal, endocrine, or neurological disorders.

Diagnostic Care

We have the best radioactive tracers (radiopharmaceuticals) to assess bodily functions. They diagnose disease through specially designed SPECT-CT and PET-CT cameras that allow them to track the path of these radioactive tracers.

Evaluating Effectiveness of Treatment Plans

Nuclear Medicine is a field of medical science that evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment plan. Using the SPECT-CT and PET-CT cameras it can be determined whether a patient is responding to treatments in the desired way or not.

Core Competencies

Patient Care

Our devoted team recognises the paramount importance of empathy and precision in fulfilling their roles as healthcare professionals. Committed to delivering optimal treatment for health issues and promoting overall well-being, our team collaborates seamlessly to ensure the highest standards of patient care.

Medical Expertise

Our team members possess extensive knowledge in evolving biomedical, clinical, and related sciences. Leveraging this expertise, they meticulously tailor patient care strategies for optimal outcomes.

Continuous Improvement

In our relentless pursuit of enhanced patient care, our experts thoroughly investigate and assess each case, striving to identify and implement the most effective treatment plans.

Interpersonal and Communication Excellence

We place a premium on the development of robust interpersonal and communication skills among all team members. Effective communication with patients, their families, and professional colleagues is a cornerstone of our approach to care.

Professional Integrity

Guided by unwavering ethical principles, our treatment plans are deeply rooted in professionalism. We are dedicated to demonstrating sensitivity and respect to all our patients.

Holistic Healthcare Approach

Our responsive staff considers the broader healthcare context, efficiently utilizing system resources to deliver high-quality care. We are unwaveringly committed to excellence in patient care within the larger framework of healthcare practices.

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Aims and Objectives

The objective of the sub-programme on Nuclear Medicine is to enhance the capabilities of Member States to address major health problems, like cancer and cardiovascular disease, effectively and efficiently using nuclear medicine techniques when appropriate and in a cost-effective manner.

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Treatment(Ailment)

Nuclear Medicine Facility continuously provide bone pain palliation treatment to patient’s of various cancer metastases with 153-Samerium, 177- Lutetium, and treatment of thyroid cancer and thyrotoxicosis with Iodine-131 and treatment of liver cancer with Yttrium-90 (Radioembolization).

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Procedures

Skeletal system
  • Whole Body Bone Scan & Three Phase Bone Scan
Cardiovascular
  • Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI)-Tc99m SestaMIBI scan
  • (Exercise/pharmacological Stress)
  • First Pass (Cardiac) Study & Gated Blood Pool (MUGA)
Endocrine
  • Iodine 131–whole body scan
  • Thyroid scan
  • Parathyroid scan
  • MIBG Scan
Gastrointestinal
  • Salivary Gland Scan
  • Esophagus Motility
  • GE Reflux
  • Gastric Emptying
  • GI Bleed Scan
  • Meckel’s Diverticulum
  • Liver (RES) Scan
  • Liver (Blood Pool) Scan
Radionuclide Therapy
  • Low-dose I–131 therapy for Graves’ disease
  • High-dose I–131 therapy for carcinoma thyroid
  • Lu-177 PSMA therapy for carcinoma prostate
  • Lu-177 DOTATATE (PRRT) Therapy
  • Bone pain palliation therapy (Sm-153 & Lu-177 EDTMP)
  • Radiosynovectomy
  • TARE/SIRT for HCC/metastatic liver lesions
Nervous System
  • Brain SPECT (ECD/TRODAT)
  • Brain Tumor Imaging
  • Cisternography
Respiratory system
  • Lung perfusion scan
Genitourinary system
  • Renogram [DTPA/EC]
  • Renal cortical scan [DMSA]
  • DRCG [VUR] study
  • DTPA GFR estimation
Miscellaneous
  • Dacroscintigraphy
  • Lymphoscintigraphy
  • Peritoneal pleural shunting
  • Testicular scan
Hepatobiliary Scan (HIDA)

Facilities

  • Gamma Camera (Dual Head) Imaging Equipment.
  • PET-CT Imaging Equipment for the diagnoses of various cancer and cardiac viability.
  • Thyroid disease diagnoses and treatment.
  • Renal Scan.
  • High Dose Therapy Ward.

Pet-Ct Facilities

Oncology

  • F-18 FDG PET-CT
  • F-18 PSMA PET-CT
  • F-18 DOPA for NETs
  • PET-CT guided biopsy

Cardiology

  • F-18 FDG for myocardial viability
  • F-18 FDG PET-CT for cardiac inflammation/sarcoidosis

Neurology

  • F-18 FDG BRAIN PET for dementia/movement disorders
  • F-18 DOPA BRAIN PET for Parkinsonism

Our Associated Doctors

Management Team
Dr. Karan Singh Peepre

Professor & HOD

Experience43 years

QualificationMBBS, MD, DNM

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Dr. Ram Singh Meena

Assistant Professor

Experience6 years

QualificationSenior Resident, MD- Nuclear Medicine, Compulsory Internship, MBBS

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FAQs

Nuclear medicine procedures are usually painless. If we inject radioactive material, generally into a vein in your arm, it is similar to giving blood. Injections under the skin performed for lymphoscintigraphy scans cause local pain for about five seconds.

Nuclear medicine procedures can be time consuming. It can take several hours to days for the radiotracer to accumulate in the area of interest. Plus, imaging may take up to several hours to perform.

Nuclear medicine procedures are used in diagnosing and treating certain illnesses. These procedures use radioactive materials called radiopharmaceuticals. Examples of diseases treated with nuclear medicine procedures are hyperthyroidism, thyroid cancer, lymphomas, and bone pain from some types of cancer.

SPECT scans are primarily used to diagnose and track the progression of heart disease, such as blocked coronary arteries. There are also radiotracers to detect disorders in bone, gall bladder disease and intestinal bleeding.

Two common uses of nuclear medicine for treatment include radioactive iodine therapy and Lutetium-177, bone pain palliation with Samarium-153 form of radiation treatment.

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