核医学

地点: 大学医院
309室(下层)
电话: 315 464-6506

The 核医学 Division performs over 5000 diagnostic and therapeutic procedures annually, many on oncology patients. 服务 include nuclear imaging of bone, 肝, 脾, 甲状腺, lungs (both ventilation and perfusion), 肾脏, adrenals (pheochromocytoma), 和其他器官.

专门的研究

Radioiodine searches for 甲状腺 carcinoma
MIBG scans for pheochromocytoma
Gallium studies for lymphomas and other neoplasms
Octreotide imaging of neural crest tumors (pheos, 小细胞癌, 良性肿瘤, 胃泌素瘤, 胰岛瘤)
Ventriculogram measurements of ejection fraction in the chemotherapy patient
Sestamibi studies for para甲状腺 adenomas (both benign and malignant); breast cancer; 甲状腺 carcinomas; 小细胞癌 of lung
Dual energy x-ray bone density measurements in patients with osteopenia (a frequent result of chemotherapy)
PET scanning of both soft tissue and skeletal structures for tumor staging and evaluation of response to radiation or chemotherapy
Position Emission Mammography for delineation of breast tumors and accurate localization biopsies
Lymphoscintigraphy for sentinel node identification in breast cancer and skin melanomas.

治疗过程

Radioiodine treatment of 甲状腺 cancer (our registry has more than 400 patients) and hyper甲状腺ism
Radiostrontium for bone metastases in breast and prostate cancer
P-32 for polycythemia vera
Select radioimmunotherapies