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​ The Institute of Nuclear Medicine at the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center offers a variety of imaging studies in the field of nuclear medicine, from various types of bone mapping to mapping of the adrenal glands and tumors

Scintigraphy

nuclear medicine

this is an avant-garde, non-invasive method for examining and treating pathologies of various organs and systems at the molecular level, which makes it possible to detect the disease long before the appearance of anatomical disorders and, if necessary, treat it with minimal exposure to healthy tissues.
The use of minimal doses of drugs in combination with the latest equipment and highly qualified personnel guarantees you a convenient, fast and accurate examination.
Most of the team speaks Russian.
All preparations are manufactured in a licensed radiopharmaceutical laboratory. This guarantees high reliability, quality of drugs and their compliance with all international standards.
Our department is equipped with modern equipment, including a 64-slice PET / CT and three gamma cameras, including a Combined SPECT / CT system, which provides simultaneous diagnostic information for both types of examinations.
The work of the department is divided into four main areas: oncology, neurology, cardiology and general nuclear medicine.

NUCLEAR ONCOLOGY

64-slice PET/CT with high throughput, streamlined professional work of the entire team, will help you in comfortable individual waiting rooms to undergo optimal preparation and imaging of various oncological processes.
The purpose of this survey:

  • Diagnostics
  • Stage Definition
  • Treatment planning
  • Treatment outcome tracking

Preoperative identification of first-order lymph nodes allows the surgeon to take only the necessary lymph nodes for biopsy without disturbing the regional lymph flow.

NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY

Certified cardiologists, together with specialists in the field of nuclear medicine, will select for you the optimal form of examination of the cardiovascular system.
The list of studies includes:

  • Evaluation of the functioning of the right and left ventricles at rest.
  • Visualization of the blood supply
    heart muscle during exercise and
    peace, etc. d.

NUCLEAR NEUROLOGY

The head of the department is the only certified specialist in the field of nuclear neurology in the country. On the basis of the department, highly specialized examination methods are carried out:

  • Identification of the focus of epilepsy for further surgical interference.
  • Diagnosis of various types of # dementias.
  • Visualization of the consequences of traumatic brain injury, including the case of no abnormalities on CT scan, with continued complaints of the patient.
  • Determination of the possibility, the central nature of persistent ringing in the ears (tinnitus).
  • Diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.
  • Forecasting and objective
    evaluation of the results of treatment of CNS pathologies in the department of hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO).

NUCLEAR MOLECULAR THERAPY

The services of our department include the treatment with radioisotope preparations of such pathologies as:

  • Benign diseases, thyroid gland.
  • Thyroid cancer and monitoring results with radioactive iodine, without having to stop hormone replacement therapy.
  • Detection of neuroendocrine tumors and their therapy.
  • Treatment of bone metastases of a tumor, prostate using radioactive radium.

GENERAL NUCLEAR MEDICINE

The list of diagnosed pathologies includes:

  • Visualization of the pathology of the bone system for the purpose of diagnosis:
    - Injuries and fractures that are not amenable to diagnosis by conventional examination methods.
    - Pathologies of the joints
    - Complications after prosthetics
    - Identification of primary tumors and bone metastases and monitoring of their treatment, etc. d.
  • Identification of kidney pathology
    from the age of one month of the patient. This list includes:
    - Urolithiasis disease
    - Narrowing of the ureter in its various parts.
    - Pyelonephritis and visualization of the scar -
    out changes in the kidneys.
    - Vesicoureteral reflux
    - Tumors of the urinary system
  • The study of the function of the gastrointestinal tract allows you to diagnose the causes of:
    - Swallowing disorders
    - Disorders of gastric emptying
    - Pathological casting of content -
    of the stomach into the esophagus and its complications.
  • With the help of our technology, it becomes possible to detect recurrent bleeding, including intestinal bleeding.
  • Examination with labeled erythrocytes
    mi gives an accurate diagnosis of hemangiomas in the liver.
  • Finding the location of the adenoma
    parathyroid gland in a non-invasive way, in order to minimize surgical intervention.
  • On the basis of our department
    a procedure for preoperative non-invasive identification of the best site for microsurgical treatment of impaired lymph flow (lymphedema).¬

Center for Nuclear Medicine and Positron Emission Tomography ChRZD-Medicine is an expansion and renewal of the radioisotope diagnostics laboratory, which was organized in 1959.

The center conducts diagnostic , and the studies are called single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET). Since these studies are combined with X-ray computed tomography (CT), their full names are SPECT/CT and PET/CT.

SPECT/CT methods are widely used in oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology and other fields. This technique is used to assess the functional state of organs and systems. The Center conducts a wide range of studies: bone scintigraphy, scintigraphy of the thyroid gland and parathyroid glands, scintigraphy of the cardiovascular system, liver, kidney.

Indications for SPECT/CT examinations are:

  • Suspicion of bone metastases in cancer of the breast, prostate, lungs, stomach (scintigraphy and SPECT/CT of the skeleton with RP 99m Тс-phosphotech).
  • IHD (SPECT / CT of the myocardium with radiopharmaceuticals 99m Tc-technetril to assess myocardial blood flow, contractile function of the heart, calcification of the coronary arteries).
  • Identification of autonomization of thyroid nodules and the risk of their malignancy, iodine deficiency and iodine-induced diseases of the organ (SPECT/CT of the gland with radiopharmaceuticals 99m Tc-pertechnetate and 99m Tc-technetrile).
  • Detection of adenoma of the parathyroid glands (SPECT/CT of the neck and chest with 99m Tc-technetril).
  • Detection of hemangiomas of the liver (SPECT/CT of the liver with radiopharmaceutical-labeled 99m Tc-pyrphotech erythrocytes).
  • Detection of thromboembolism of the branches of the pulmonary artery (SPECT / CT of the lungs with radiopharmaceuticals 99m Tc-macrotech).
  • Evaluation of renal artery function, glomerular filtration and urodynamics (dynamic renal scintigraphy with RP 99m Ts-pentatekh).

One of the activities of the State Corporation "Rosatom" is the development of nuclear medicine (medical diagnostics and radiation therapy used in the treatment of oncological, cardiological and neurological diseases). This task is solved by the integrator in this area - Rusatom Healthcare JSC, which has united a number of leading manufacturers in the domestic industry - NIITFA JSC (equipment production), V/O Isotop JSC (radionuclide production), NIFKhI im. L.Ya. Karpov (production of radiopharmaceuticals), JSC Rusreactor (production of low-power reactors for the production of radionuclides), as well as two centers for the production of radiopharmaceuticals based on ultrashort-lived radionuclides - fluorine-18, carbon-11, nitrogen-13 and oxygen-15 for PET -diagnostics. Work is actively underway to create and bring to market an import-substituting radiotherapy complex based on a linear electron accelerator with an energy of 6 MeV for precision radiation therapy of malignant tumors. The first such accelerators will appear in 2022. Work is underway to create a network of nuclear medicine centers in the country. One of them will be built in the coming years in Irkutsk. Similar centers are planned to be built in other regions of Russia.

Today, over 50% of the radioactive isotopes produced in the world are used for medical purposes. As part of the development of domestic nuclear medicine, the State Corporation Rosatom organized the production of the molybdenum-99 isotope at the State Scientific Center Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Region). The project is aimed at organizing in Russia its own production of new radiopharmaceuticals and medical devices, the formation of services for the provision of high-tech medical care to the population.

Russia is a nuclear power with vast experience in the application of nuclear technologies in various fields of human activity. Nuclear medicine, which includes the use of radionuclides for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, began to develop in our country at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s. Modern nuclear medicine is a set of technologies that allow studying the blood supply to the brain, evaluating the functioning of internal organs and systems by scanning according to the principle of tomography.

Nuclear medicine in Russia

Patients' testimonies testify that today nuclear medicine in Russia has firmly taken a leading position in the field of early diagnosis and treatment of malignant pathologies. Such operations are carried out at different stages and with different forms of oncology, only the type of radionuclide used changes. Russian surgeons have successfully mastered new technologies for the treatment of malignant liver lesions, hormonal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, throat, thyroid gland and other serious diseases using radioembolization and radioimmunotherapy, cyberknives, and the Da Vinci robot.

Nuclear medicine in Russia: prices

Operation using the Da Vinci robot - from 380 rubles, Gamma knife - 220 thousand rubles.