Nuclear Medicine
The nuclear medicine department was founded in 1989 with a focus on educational, research, diagnostic and therapeutic goals in the field of nuclear medicine at the former Imam Khomeini Hospital, which has been transferred to the first floor of the current Imam Reza Hospital in 2011. The provided nuclear medicine procedures in this center can be divided into two main categories and include: diagnostic imaging procedures, and the therapeutic interventions which are performed in the treatment ward.
In the diagnostic process, planar imaging and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) are used to diagnosis and follow up the progression of various diseases. There are done various scans to detect disorders such as thyroid scan, parathyroid scan, bone scan, renal scan (DTPA& DMSA), lung scan (perfusion,ventilation), myocardial perfusion scan (GATED SPECT), brain scan, liver scan, spleen scan, hepatobiliary scan, testis scan, lacrimal duct scan, MIBG scan, Meckel's diverticulum scan, RBC lymphoscintigraphy scan (especially for sentinel lymph node detection in breast cancer), cisternography scan, direct cystography scan, gallium scan, PSMA scan, MIBI scan( for evaluating suspicious breast masses), and gastrointestinal scans and etc.
In the treatment ward, treatment of hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer with iodine 131, treatment of painful bone metastasis by samarium 153, and treatment with 131I-MIBG for metastatic neuroblastoma are performed. The treatment ward of this center is the largest well-equipped center in the northwest of the country with 10 VIP inpatient rooms for radioactive iodine treatment of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer as well as treatment with 131I-MIBG, Lu-PSMA, and Lu-DOTATATE.
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