The Nuclear Medicine Department was set up as early as in 1969 and has been continually updated ever since. It has a modern double-head gamma camera with ring gantry (ADAC Vertex) and a one-head gamma camera, both capable of SPECT (single-photon-emission computerized tomography), a nuclear medicine procedure of three dimensional sectional image diagnosis.

Nuclear medicine examinations have become increasingly important in the last couple of years because they offer the possibility of carrying out functional and metabolic studies. As part of myocardial scintigraphy, there is also the possibility of using gated myocardial SPECT, an examination method that allows the calculation of the heart's regional and global functions apart from the non-invasive visualization of blood flow within the cardiac muscle (state after a heart attack, for example).

Apart from the scintigraphic examination of the heart, the department also specializes in skeletal and thyroid diagnosis (3-phase skeletal scintigraphy and thyroid scintigraphy), supplemented by color-coded thyroid sonography. Naturally, many other nuclear medicine examination procedures are available, such as renal function scintigraphy, lung perfusion examinations, brain SPECT, etc.

In addition to diagnostic methods, we offer our patients - as an essential part of nuclear medicine - the option of painless treatment of various diseases. With inflammatory joint diseases, we carry out radiosynoviorthesis, and radiotherapy in cases of Bechterew’s disease. In case of painful bone metastases, there is the possibility of nuclear medicine pain management with samarium or rhenium.

Radiation protection plays a particularly important role in nuclear medicine. Current procedures and specialized equipment emit low radiation and allow short examination periods. Generally, radiation exposure is even lower than in X-ray examinations.