1. Areas of Expertise
2. Nuclear Medicine

Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Advanced Imaging of South Bay Inc; has the leading edge in this rapidly growing diagnostic and therapeutic field including SPECT AND PET Technology.

Diagnostic Procedures:

Brain

• Cerebral Radio nuclide Perfusion for cerebral death evaluation.
• Spect Brain imaging for ischemia detection.
• Radio nuclide cysternogram for evaluation hydrocephalus and Cerebro spinal leaks.
  
• DaT scan ( Dopamine Transporter imaging) for evaluation of -Parkinson disorders including quantitative analysis.
• Visual and Quantitative analysis of PET Brain Scan for dementia evaluation.
• Amyvid PET brain scan for dementia evaluation.

Salivary Gland Physiology Imaging

• Qualitative and Quantitative lung perfusion and ventilation analysis for Pulmonary Embolism and prior to surgery.
• Evaluation of right to Left shunt

Other Services:

• Nuclear Cardiology including ischemia, viability and Left ventricular function evaluation. PET cardiac evaluation for viability, sarcoidosis etc;
• Whole Body and SPECT Bone, Gallium and Somatostatin receptor imaging.
• Liver spleen imaging, Hepato biliary imaging.
• Gastric Emptying and gastro intestinal bleeding detection studies and gastro esophageal reflux studies.
• Pre and Post Y-90 therapy SPECT CT imaging.
• General SPECT/CT imaging for miscellaneous indications including hemangioma and other focal liver pathology.
• Thyroid imaging prior to and post therapy.
• Parathyroid planar and SPECT/CT imaging.
• Renal imaging including Lasix Renography for function and obstruction evaluation.

PET imaging in Oncology:

• Staging, re staging and response assessment for most of malignancies including, Lung, esophagus, gastric, lymphoma, melanoma , musculoskeletal malignancies etc;
  F-18 Flucyclovine (Axumin) for prostate carcinoma recurrence.
• Gallium -68 PET (Netspot) for evaluation of neuro endocrine evaluation.
• F-18 PET/CT bone imaging for metastatic work up.

THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES:

• Radio iodine therapy for hyper thyroidism and thyroid carcinoma.
• Radium-223 dichloride (xofigo) infusion therapy for castrate resistant prostate carcinoma.
• Bone pain palliation therapy (Samarium-153) for bone metastasis.

Equipment:

• The state of the art SPECT /CT imaging device delivers the best of both worlds of function and anatomy for optimum patient care.