Nuclear Medicine
Services offered
Radio-isotope imaging of all relevant conditions. Nuclear medicine techniques provide essentially non-invasive functional information which is complimentary to the more structural information obtained from other imaging investigation.
Doctors
Dr. Jan Esser
1st Floor Central Avenue, Arwyp Medical Centre
011 394 6600 / 011 975 9230
The following investigative procedures are available:
- Musculo skeletal system
- Bone scan
- Joint scan
- Bone marrow scan
Respiratory system
- Tc-99m MMA lung perfusion scan
- Tc-99m DTPA aerosol ventilation scan
- Tc-99m DTPA aerosol mucociliary clearance
- Tc-99m DTPA lung permeability scan
Tumour imaging
- Gallium-67 Citrate scan
- In-111 Octreotide scan
Genito urinary system
- Dynamic renal scan Tc-99m DTPA/MAG3
- Tc-99m DMSA renal cortical scan
- Voiding indirect cystography
- Determination of residual urine volume
- Testicular scan
Cardiovascular system
- Myiocardial perfusion ischaemia/infarct Tc-99m Cadiolite
- Thallium-201 myocardial viability (hibernation)
Infection
- Gallium-67 Citrate scan
- Tc-99m HMPAO labelled white blood cells
Special imaging procedures
- Dacroscintigraphy
- CSF shunt potency
- Sentinel lymph node imaging
- Intra-operative probe detection
Central nervous system
- Functional brain imaging - Cisternography
- Thallium-201 recurrent brain tumour
Gastro-intestinal system
- Salivary gland scan
- Oesophageal scintigraphy
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux study (children)
- Gastric emptying study (solid/liquid phases)
- Detection of gastro-intestinal bleeding
- Detection of Meckel’s Diverticulum
- Liver/spleen imaging
- Liver haemogiomania study
- Hepatobiliary scan (HIDA)
Endocrine system
- Tc-99m pertechnetate thyroid scan
- l-131 / l-123 substernal thyroid scan
- l-131 thyroid uptake measurement
- l-131 wholebody scan
- Tc-99m Sestamibi Parathyroid scan
- l-131 MIBG Adrenal medulla scan
- l-132 MIBG Adrenal medulla scan
- l-131 NP-59 Adrenal cortex scan
- Indium-111 Octreotide scan