Nuclear Medicine

Nuclear Medicine

We offer a comprehensive range of diagnostic imaging and non-imaging procedures for a wide range conditions. Some examples of the tests provided include:

• Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy
• Thyroid and parathyroid investigations
• Lung ventilation and perfusion imaging
• Assessment of cardiac ventricular function
• Renal scanning and glomerular filtration rate assessment
• Labelled blood cell imaging for infection / inflammation
• Liver and spleen imaging
• GI investigations including gastric emptying and bile acid malabsorption (SeHCAT) assessment
• Bone scanning
• Bain scanning for some dementias and Parkinson’s disease
• Sentinel lymph node imaging (breast cancer and melanoma).
• We also we provide imaging support to investigator-led and commercial clinical trials.

Molecular Radiotherapy (nuclear medicine therapy)

In-patient and out-patient procedures are provided for patients from the South Yorkshire region and beyond. These include 131-I therapy for benign thyroid disease and for the treatment of thyroid cancer; Lu-177 Dotatate and 131-I mlBG treatments for the treatment of neuroendocrine tumours and Ra-223 treatments for treatment of metastatic bone disease for patients with prostate cancer.

Referral address

Please see this link for information relating to referring patients into our Nuclear Medicine service.

Clinic Times

Monday –Friday 9-5, Royal Hallamshire, Northern General Hospital, Weston Park Hospital.

Consultants

Please contact the department to speak to one of the staff via reception: 0114 271 2779

For more information about this service call 0114 271 2779

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