Department of Nuclear Medicine is located on the ground floor of Hacettepe Adult Hospital. Furthermore, Oncology unit affiliated to the department is located on the 1st floor in Hacettepe Oncology Hospital. Imaging services are offered with a total of 7 gamma cameras including a PET/CT camera, a SPECT/CT hybrid imaging cameras and 3 SPECT cameras. Furthermore 2 uptake devices, 1 gamma probe, 1 gamma counter, 1 xenon ventilation unit, 1 dobutamine infusion pump, 1 stress ECG device and 2 USG services are available in the department. SPECT-CT device in Oncology unit is among the very first devices installed in Turkey. It can combine anatomical and functional imaging in the same device in order to enhance the accuracy of diagnosis.
All of the daily, weekly and monthly quality controls of the devices in our department are conducted under the supervision of Medical Physicist. Approximately over 10,000 scintigraphy studies which are mainly on Nuclear Cardiology, Nuclear Oncology, Nuclear Nephrourology and endocrine system are conducted in Department of Nuclear Medicine. In addition to diagnostic scintigraphy studies, radionuclide treatments for various purposes (treatments of hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer with I-131, neuroblastoma and feokromositoma treatments with I-131 MIBG, radionuclide treatment of metastatic bone pain, radionuclide synovectomy for hemophilia and rheumatoid arthritis, radioimmunotherapy (Y-90 labeled antiCD-20 antibody), radioembolization (Y-90 microsphere) are given.
Last updated: 9 December 2014