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Dr. Sharma is the
pioneer who introduced the Computerized
Gamma Camera in Eastern India. The
Nuclear Medicine unit of EKO was
established in 1997 with a Rectangular
Head SPECT system. Over the last 8 years
it has progressed steadily, establishing
itself as one of the most advanced and
reputed departments.
Nuclear Medicine is
unique as it is the only modality, which
provides true functional information.
In the disease
process, functional abnormalities always
precede structural changes. Hence,
Nuclear Medicine is the most sensitive
modality as it detects the abnormality
at the earliest. Computerized
quantification of different organ
functions can be performed in Nuclear
Medicine with great accuracy, for e.g.,
ejection fraction of the ventricles,
oesophageal and gastric transit time,
ejection fraction of gall bladder, GFR
etc. In diagnostic Nuclear Imaging the
radioisotopes are used in very low
doses. The procedures are absolutely
safe as the radiation doses received by
the patients are low. The recently
installed Dual Head SPECT-CT system has
added a new dimension to the field of
diagnostic imaging. Only a very few
centers in the world have such
facilities.
Fusion Imaging
Nuclear Imaging gives excellent
functional information while C.T and/or
MRI give finer details of the anatomy of
an organ. To obtain comprehensive and
complete information regarding an organ,
both anatomic and functional information
are important which are
"fused" in fusion imaging. The
image obtained from Gamma Camera is
blended with a CT or MRI image and all
the information is obtained from a
single image. The fusion imaging system,
which is installed in EKO, is one of the
very few in India.
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