Nuclear Medicine is a branch of medicine where in small amounts of radioactive isotopes (radionuclides) are used for diagnosis and treatment of disease for various disease states. Unfortunately, it is under developed and underutilized in India. At Artemis, we have a state-of-the-art Nuclear Medicine Department, complete with state of the art Dual head Gamma Camera, SPECT-CT, Double Gantry PET-CT, Thyroid probe Intraoperational Gamma probe and ‘Hot Lab’. Nuclear imaging aims to detect the disease process before it causes anatomic changes. Conventional imaging modalities like Ultrasound, CT and MRI detect anatomical changes. Metabolic and physiological changes precede the anatomical changes, which happen much later. Some diseases may not even cause anatomic changes.

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