Nuclear Medicine

St Vincent’s Hospital provides a comprehensive nuclear medicine service, using state-of-the-art equipment.

What is Nuclear Medicine?
Nuclear medicine provides unique information about the function of the major organ system within the body. Procedures are among the safest and least invasive diagnostic imaging tests available. The amount of radiation in a nuclear medicine procedure is small.

Nuclear medicine procedures are painless and do not require anaesthesia.

Although Nuclear Medicine is commonly used for diagnostic purposes, it also provides valuable therapeutic applications, such as treatment of hyperthyroidism, thyroid cancer, blood imbalances and pain relief from certain types of bone cancers.

At St Vincent’s Hospital, our procedures are unique, safe and cost-effective.

More about Nuclear Medicine
Nuclear medicine: how it works
Bone mineral densitometry
Osteroporosis
Nuclear medicine tests
Tests and bookings
Nuclear medicine staff

Equipment and Facilities

16-channel PET/CT
Dual Head Variable Angle ADAC MCD PET Camera
GE XRT rectangular head tomographic gamma camera

Scans, Studies and Tests Available

Bone Scan	Carbon-14 Urea Breath Test
Myocardial Perfusion Scan (Sestamibi)	Sentinel Node Scan
Gated Heart Blood Pool Scan	Oesophageal Motility
Bone Densitometry And Body Composition	Gastric Emptying
Lung Ventilation / Perfusion Scan	Salivary Scan
Gallium Scan	GIT Blood Loss
Labelled White Blood Cells	Parathyroid Scan
Thyroid Scan And Radioiodine Therapy	CSF Studies
Gall Bladder / Biliary (HIDA) Scan	Thallium Tumour Imaging
Renal Scan	PET/CT Scan
Liver / Spleen Scan	Yttrium-90 Microspheres
Liver Red Blood Cell Scan	MIBG Adrenal Scan
Cerebral Perfusion (Ceretec)	Octreotide Scan
Lymphoscintigraphy	DTPA Lung Clearance

These are common tests offered by the department, please contact the department for other non-listed examinations.

Click here for further details on Tests.

Bookings	T (02) 8382 2445 T (02) 8382 2453
Results Enquiries	T (02) 8382 2216
General Enquiries	T (02) 8382 2216
After hours emergencies	T (02) 8382 1111
Location	Level 2, Xavier Building St Vincent’s Hospital 360 Victoria Street Darlinghurst NSW 2010

Director Associate Professor Judy Freund
Diagnostic Services Manager Patricia Buick
Senior Staff Specialists Associate Professor Nick Pocock & Dr Edwin Szeto
Staff Specialist Dr Lyn Chan
Chief Technologist Brian Sorensen
Senior Scientific Officer Andy Young

Teaching and academic links
Affiliated with the University of NSW

Clinical research
Members of the department are involved in research projects on a range of topics including:

Best time to image cancers with PET/CT
Measurement of body fat by different techniques
Bone densitometry and osteoporosis

Useful links
Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine
Radiological Society of North America
The Medical Journal of Australia