About Department

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 1998 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.

Economical therapy for liver cancer patients was achieved with in-house radio-pharmaceutical production. Department has taken steps to provide cheaper I-131 Lipidol therapeutic therapy to replace costly imported therapy. This step is likely to bring down the cost of this therapy from 6.0 lakhs to 40.0 thousand per treatment. The goal will be achieved by using carrier free I-131 available from BARC, Mumbai.

The starting of new PDCC course in Correlative Imaging and Radionuclide Therapy and passing out of three batches of Master in Nuclear Medicine technologies with BBAU, Lucknow put forward us the provide skilled and trained human resources for the speciality in the state of UP.

Apart from patient care the department put its efforts to do research and development in collaboration with various research institutes across the globe such as IIT-K, CDRI-Lucknow, AMU-Aligarh, University of Alberta, Canada and received grants from national and international funding agencies such as DST-New Delhi, MHRD-New Delhi, DBT-New Delhi.

Vision

Radionuclides for Medical diagnostics and therapeutics

Mission

Comprehensive care of patient with the application of radionuclides