Nuclear Medicine
Nuclear medicine involves administering a small dose of a radioactive substance that is similar to normal substances occurring in the body but is “labeled” with a tracer that can be imaged by the nuclear medicine camera. This allows technicians to visualize how the body is processing normal substances and allows them to measure these processes or obtain pictures that highlight areas of abnormal function.
Imaging We Offer
Grant Memorial Hospital offers a variety of nuclear medicine scans to diagnose many medical conditions and diseases, including:
- Bone scan
- Cardiac multigated acquisition (MUGA) scan
- Cardiolite stress
- Gastric emptying
- Gastrointestinal (GI) bleed
- Hepatobiliary
- Lung scan
- Parathyroid scan
- Renal scan
- Thyroid uptake and scan