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Nuclear Medicine at Eastern Health

Nuclear Medicine is offered across the Eastern Health Network

SPECT CT now available at Box Hill and Maroondah Hospitals

Most commonly requested Nuclear Medicine scans:

• Cardiac stress test - highly sensitive in detection of reversible ischaemia

• Gated Blood Pool scans - assess cardiac function

• Bone scan - highly sensitive in the detection of occult fractures, malignancy and infection

• Thyroid scan - assesses focal thyroid nodules and thyroid function

• Renal scans - assess renal function, obstruction, scarring and can isolate renal hypertension

• Lung ventilation/perfusion study (VQ) - highly sensitive in detection of pulmonary emboli

• GI imaging - assesses gastric and colonic transit

• Biliary imaging - assesses gall bladder dysfunction

• Liver imaging - aids in the classification of identified