Advance Diagnostics:

A High Tech Technology for Today and Tomorrow


Department of Nuclear Medicine offers nearly 100 different diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine imaging procedures available today. An estimated 25 to 30 million nuclear medicine imaging and therapeutic procedures are performed each year worldwide.

Nuclear medicine procedures are unique, cost-effective, and safe. The amount of radiation in a nuclear medicine procedure is comparable to that received during a diagnostic x-ray. Even children commonly undergo nuclear medicine procedures to evaluate bone pain, injuries, infection, kidney or bladder function, and gastrointestinal maladies.

Common adult nuclear medicine applications include diagnosis and treatment of hyperthyroidism, cardiac stress tests to evaluate coronary artery disease, oncology scans, bone scans for orthopedic injuries, liver and gall bladder procedures to diagnose abnormal function or blockages, and lung scans for blood clots.

Yashoda Cancer Institute’s Nuclear Medicine department is equipped with the most sophisticated Gamma Camera equipment with below mentioned highlights.