Department of Nuclear Medicine

OPD Schedule :

Teaching program schedule :

Department Facilities :

Other instruments available: Treadmill withECG monitor, complete radio-pharmacy with all the quality control equipments,quality control phantoms and calibration sources, all radiation monitoring andpersonnel monitoring devices.

Gamma Camera Procedures performed:Thyroid scan, Parathyroid scan,Myocardial Perfusion scan, MUGA, Renogram, DMSA scan, DTPA scan, GFR,Radionuclide MCU, Bone scan, Lung Perfusion & Ventilation scan,Liver-spleen scan, Hepatobillary scan, Meckel scan, Brain SPECT, GI bleeding,Gastric emptying and GER scan and Dacryoscintigraphy.

Therapeutic Nuclear MedicineProcedures:Out patient I-131 therapy for thyrotoxicosis and Samarium therapy for bone painpalliation. Inpatient high dose radio-iodine therapy for metastatic thyroidcancer.

PET-CT Facility:

The department has 128 slice TOF Philips PET-CT scanner whichhas been fully functional since Sep 2018.

Training & Courses :

Academics: The department has AERB approved M.Sc. NuclearMedicine course since 2015 affiliated to Lucknow University with presently 6seats sanctioned per year. Regular classes, internal assessments and semesterexams are conducted. CME’s and guest lecturers have been organized from time totime.

CMEconducted by the Department :

CME on Nuclear Thyroidologyin Jan, 2016.

CME onApplication of FDG PET-CT in non-oncologic conditions in Sep, 2019. 

 Guest lecturers delivered by the Guest faculty:

Guest Lecture onNuclear Cardiology by Richard Underwood.  

Guest lecturesby Dr Shambhavi Mishra.

Guest lecturesby Dr Subhash Kheruka.

Guest lecturesby Dr G.S Pant.

Guest lecturers delivered by the  Departmental faculty :

Theinception of the Department of Nuclear Medicine goes back to year 2010 The OPD startedin 2011 with the weekly two days. The Gamma camera was acquired in the year2013 and since then the number of daily scans which have been performed  have both increased in number as well asindications which we have been doing the scan. The number of the OPD days hasbeen increased now we have been doing OPD for five days in a week with thepatient input of almost 45 to 50 Patients per OPD. We are treating bothhypothyroidism as well as hyperthyroidism with the help of Radioiodine. We arealso conducting special OPD for thyroid cancer patients for which we are admittingthe patient to isolation ward. We also are seeing patients for bone painpalliation and treating them with Samarium-153 therapy. In August 2018 PET CTmachine was installed and after the installation almost more than thousand PETscans have been performed for various oncological & non oncologicalindications. We are in plan for expansion for Department with other modalitieslike PET MR, Cyclotron, PET CT guided biopsy, Second Gamma Camera. We are alsoin process of starting DNB courses for which the application is under process.

1) HOD:

2) Start date of the department: Year 2009

3) About the department:

Nuclear Medicine imaging procedures, which are noninvasive, safe and painless, are used in diagnosis and management of treatment:

1. Cancer,Heart disease,,,,
2. Brain disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease
3. Gastrointestinal disorders
4. Lung disorders
5. Bone disorders
6. Kidney and thyroid disorders

The Nuclear medicine facility is located in Oncology Bhawan. We are performing routine clinical work involving gamma camera SPECT-CT imaging, radionuclide low dose (on OPD basis) and high dose (inpatient therapy), as well as for student teaching and conducting interdepartmental clinical discussion/ meetings.

The government has approved one Time of Flight (TOF) PET-CT and one dual head gamma camera under consideration for the Nuclear Medicine department. The facility will be functional earliest by end of 2014.

Two room isolation ward high dose radionuclide therapy facility are functional since June, 2013.

We are providing a large range of nuclear medicine investigations as well as therapeutic services.

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4) Location: First floor, Oncology Building
Contact No.:
HOD, Nuclear Medicine office: 05222305400, extension 4032
Reception Nuclear Medicine: 05222305400, extension 4045

5) Senior Residents: One (01), Dr. Himanshu

6) Facilities:Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine Clinic Click Here

Equipment:

1. SPECT-CT: The department has state of art dual head SPECT-CT (16 slice CT). Single photon emission tomography (SPECT) permits 3D reconstruction of data, increasing the sensitivity and anatomical localization of lesions in the skeleton, brain and heart.

1. Thyroid Uptake probe
2. TMT- Used for stress myocardial perfusion imaging.

Services offered by the department as follow-

Numerous diagnostic and therapeutic services are offered at present. For full list of services, please click here.

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7) Courses Offered:

1. M.Sc (Nuclear Medicine)
2. MD Nuclear Medicine : Waiting for approval from MCI.
3. Short-term training in Nuclear Medicine for DNB and Nuclear Medicine Technology Students.

8) Activities: Department of Nuclear Medicine is actively involved in teaching and training of medical physicist, technician, nurses and other paramedical staff about radiation safety in diagnostic as well as therapeutic nuclear medicine.

9) Area of research expertise: Nuclear Cardiology, Nuclear nephro-urology, Nuclear oncology and Nuclear endocrinology

10) Research Staff: One (01) Dhananjay Kumar Singh, Scientist “B”

11) Technical Staff:

12) Future Prospective plan:

1. State of art PET-CT facility will be made available by the end of this financial year.
2. Sentinel Lymph node probe.

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