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Nuclear Medicine and Queensland PET Services

The Department of Nuclear Medicine provides a comprehensive range of diagnostic scans and therapeutic procedures and is the largest Nuclear Medicine Department in Queensland.  Services include cardiac stress testing facilities, bone mineral density testing and a Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approved radiopharmaceutical laboratory.
   
The Queensland PET Service is a state-wide Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Service, located at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.  It is comprised of a comprehensive suite of PET radiopharmaceutical production, manufacturing and imaging capabilities.

Diagnostic Procedures

• Stress / Rest Myocardial Perfusion Studies
• Bone Scan for trauma, infection or skeletal metastases
• Captopril Renography for renovascular hypertension
• Meta-lodobenzyl Guanidine (MIBG) localisation of neuro-endocrine tumours
• PET/CT Scans

Therapeutic Procedures

• Therapy for hyperthyroidism (direct referral or through Thyroid Clinic)
• Therapy for thyroid cancer (through Thyroid Cancer Clinic, Division of Oncology)
• Radiation Synovectomy (through Rheumatology)

 

Location: Level 3 Ned Hanlon Building Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Metro North Health Service District

Telephone: (07) 3636 7593 Facsimile: (07) 3636 3502 Email: RBWH-Feedback@health.qld.gov.au (with the subject "Nuclear Medicine")