Types of Exams

Nuclear Medicine offers a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for many medical conditions and diseases.  Some of the more common exams performed at Lifespan include the following:

Nuclear Cardiology

• Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
• Myocardial Viability Scans
• Amyloid Imaging

Endocrine System

• Parathyroid Imaging
• Neuroendocrine Imaging
• MIBG imaging for pheochromocytoma and neuroblastoma
• Thyroid Imaging for thyroid cancer or benign thyroid disease

Musculoskeletal

• Whole body, 3phase and SPECT skeletal imaging

Inflammation/Oncology

• Bone Marrow
• Lymphoscintigraphy
• Sentinel node mapping
• White Blood Cell Imaging

Pulmonary

• Lung Perfusion and Ventilation

Gastrointestinal

• Hepatobiliary Imaging
• Gastrointestinal Bleeding
• Meckels Scan
• Gastric Motility
• Hemangioma scan
• Liver/Spleen Scan

Genitourinary System

• Renal Imaging (with or without pharmaceutical intervention)

NeuroImaging

• Brain Perfusion
• DaTscan
• Shunt Patency
• Cisternograms

PET/CT

• F18 FDG Imaging, F18 Sodium chloride and F18 amyloid imaging for oncology
• F18 for cardiology
• F18 amyloid imaging for neurology

Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine

• I-131 Therapy for thyroid cancer or benign thyroid disease
• Y-90 Sir Spheres and Theraspheres
• Ra223 Xofigo
• Sm-153