About Nuclear Medicine
Department of Nuclear Medicine was established on 1st January 1982. The department has been upgraded and equipped with advanced state of the art dual-headed Gamma Camera with SPECT-CT facility. The department provides a variety of diagnostic scans, therapeutic procedures and radioimmunoassay. The department has high dose 1-131 ablation therapy unit for the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer and caters to patients from Karnataka, Goa and North Kerala, being the only centre in this region, making it different from other centres. The department attends to around 4000 patients every year.
Contact Details
HOD: Dr. Sumeet Suresh Malapure
Ground Floor, Shirdi Saibaba Cancer and Research Centre
Madhav Nagar, Manipal, Karnataka 576104
Radionuclide Scans
Gastroenterology
- Hepatobiliary scan
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux
- GI Bleed Scintigraphy
- Meckelʼs diverticulum Scintigraphy
- Gastric emptying
- Blood pool study
Nephrourology
- Reno gram
- Renal scan (DMSA-III)
- Vesicoureteric reflux
Pulmonary system
- Lung perfusion
Neurology
- Brain SPECT scan
Oncology
- Scintimammography
- Gallium scan
- Liver/spleen SPECT scan
- MIBI scan
- DMSA – V Scan
Orthopaedics
- Bone scan
- Bone graft viability
Cardiology
- Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy
- Myocardial viability
- LV ejection fraction (MUGA)
Endocrine
- Thyroid scan
- 1-131 Whole body scan
- 1-131 MIBG scan
- Parathyroid scintigraphy
Others
- Lymphoscintigraphy
- Gallium scan for infection
- Dacryoscintigraphy
- Salivary Scintigraphy
- Radionuclide Venogram
Radionuclide Therapy
1-31 therapy for hyperthyroidism
1-31 therapy for differentiated thyroid cancer
Palliative treatment of painful bone metastasis
P-32 therapy for Polycythemia Vera
The Team
Dr. Sumeet Suresh Malapure
Head of Department