Nuclear Medicine is a department where diagnosis and treatment are made with radioactive materials used in many different forms (solid, liquid, gas). In our center, scintigraphic imaging of many organs and diseases such as thyroid, bone, heart, kidney, liver are performed as diagnostic tests, and also some types of cancer and diseases, especially thyroid diseases, are treated with radioactive materials.

The first Nuclear Medicine applications in Bülent Ecevit University Faculty of Medicine started with the establishment of the "Nuclear Medicine Department" in 2002. Since its establishment, 5 doctors have completed their specialization training in our Department.

Our department, which started to serve with two gamma cameras in 2002, has kept up with the developing technology, renewed its devices whose service life has expired and continues to serve its patients with the highest technology. Our department's device inventory as of 2021; It consists of 1 SPECT Gamma Camera, 1 SPECT/BT Gamma camera, 1 Pinhole Gamma Camera, 2 Gamma Probe Devices and 1 Uptake Device, and it is the most developed center in terms of device variety and services offered in our region.

In addition, in 2012, the Positron Emission Tomography / Computerized Tomography (PET / CT) device, which has very important application areas, especially in oncology, was put into service. Since our clinic is the only center providing PET/CT imaging services in the Western Black Sea Region, it meets an important need for cancer patients.

Provided Medical Services:

DIAGNOSTIC NUCLEAR MEDICINE APPLICATIONS:

Nuclear Oncology

. Iodine-131 whole body scan
. Iodine-131 thyroid uptake test
. F18 FDG PET/CT
. Ga68-PSMA PET/CT
. Tumor imaging with Ga68-DOTATATE
. Intraoperative gamma probe application
. Sentinel lymph node scintigraphy
·. MIBG scintigraphy (with I-123)

Skeletal System
-Three-phase regional bone scintigraphy
-Whole body bone scintigraphy
-Bone SPECT/CT

Infection Imaging
-Labeled leukocyte scintigraphy
-Tc-99m nanocolloid scintigraphy

Endocrine System

-Thyroid scintigraphy
-Parathyroid scintigraphy (with Tc-99m MIBI)
-Ga68- DOTATATE PET / CT study

Gastrointestinal System

-Determining the site of gastrointestinal bleeding
-Gastroesophageal reflux study
-Hepatobiliary scintigraphy
-Liver spleen scintigraphy
-Meckel's diverticulum scintigraphy
-Salivary gland scintigraphy
-Gastric emptying time measurement
-Esophageal transit time measurement

Central Nervous System

-Brain perfusion Tc99m HMPAO SPECT/CT

Nuclear Hematology

-Blood pool SPECT / CT (hemangioma imaging scintigraphy)
-Bone marrow scintigraphy
-Selective spleen scintigraphy

Genitourinary System

-Kidney scintigraphy (with or without diuretic) with Tc-99m DTPA
-Kidney scintigraphy (with or without diuretic) with Tc-99m MAG 3
-Renal cortical scintigraphy (Tc-99m DMSA)
-Captopril renogram (double study)
-Radionuclide cystography (indirect)

Cardiovascular System

-Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (SPECT) with Tc-99m complexes
-Myocardial perfusion with GATED SPECT /CT Tc-99m complexes

Nuclear Medicine Applications In Treatment:

Hyperthyroidism Treatment with Iodine-131