Nuclear Medicine is a branch of medical science where radionuclides are used for diagnosis and treatment of human diseases.
The department of Nuclear Medicine was started in year 1988 with two planar gamma cameras, Headtome; a dedicated SPECT system for head and a dual photon x-ray bone densitometer. It was the only Nuclear Medicine department in this region at that time and offered diagnostic as well as therapeutic services to people of U.P and neighbouring states. The department performs over ten thousands diagnostic and therapeutic procedures per year using various radio isotopes at reasonable cost.
Ever since, the department has kept pace with developments in this field and continued to progress. And moved on to incorporate newer technology of SPECT-CT and acquired three such systems. After adding PET-CT imaging for general oncology and neuro-endocrine tumors, the department is counted amongst the leading centres of the country which offer such advance imaging services for patients. The establishment of Cyclotron facility enhances the number patient diagnose as well as new radio labelled tracers such as 11C-Methionine, 11C-Choline, 13N-NH3, 18F-FES, Ga-68 based peptides were introduced to diagnose various diseases. With the production of Cu-64 radio-isotope we stand first in country and also very few centres around the globe having such a facility. The produced Cu-64 was used for diagnostic and its therapeutic potential to be explored soon due to capability of this isotope to be used as therapeutic radio isotope.