The Nuclear Medicine team has extensive experience in diagnostic and therapies and, when appropriate, employ unique systems, such as SPECT-CT, PET-CT, DSPECT, etc for better diagnosis and special approaches like dosimetry, simplified dosimetry for therapy.
The nuclear medicine techniques combine the use of state-of-the art sensitive scanning equipment, advanced computing technology and various radioactive substances to produce high quality images. Currently we house a total of 8 nuclear medicine cameras.
The Nuclear Medicine team has extensive experience in diagnostic and therapies and, when appropriate, employ unique systems, such as SPECT-CT, PET-CT, DSPECT, etc for better diagnosis and special approaches like dosimetry, simplified dosimetry for therapy.
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Nuclear Cardiology
Nuclear Cardiology is a branch of Nuclear Medicine and Cardiology specialties that uses tiny amount of radioactive material (radioactive tracer) to study the heart. By using a tiny amount of radioactive material (radioactive tracer), pictures of the heart are taken with a special camera that…
PET-CT imaging is a very advanced, non-invasive test that allows detection of tumors earlier, and sometimes more reliably, than other imaging methods. In the past, PET scans and CT scans were performed separately in two different types of cameras. Although in some instances it still…
Our team of nuclear medicine physicians at MedStar Washington Hospital Center is one of the largest and performs the highest numbers of RAI scans and therapies in the United States.