PET Centre BIONT – as an outpatient healthcare facility of nuclear medicine performs diagnostic examinations using positron, as well as classical radiopharmaceuticals. The main equipment of the centre consists of PET/CT tomographs Philips Gemini TF64 and GE Discovery LS, and a SPECT/CT gamma camera GE MilleniumVG Hawkeye for coincidence imaging.
All of the devices allow for a combination of functional and metabolic imaging with a CT scan in one examination. This unique, hybrid imaging method undoubtedly leads to more accurate and improved examinations. Our facility introduced the first device of this type in the Slovak Republic already in 2005. The methods of nuclear medicine are used predominantly in the diagnostics of oncological, cardiovascular, and neurological diseases.
List of examination methods.
Positron Emission Tomography
- PET/CT scan of the torso with 18F-FDG in the diagnostics of oncological and non-oncological diseases
- PET/CT scan with 18F-FDG for the radiotherapy planning
- PET scan of the brain with 18F-FDG in the neurological diagnostics (dementias, neurodegenerative diseases, drug-resistant epilepsy)
- PET scan of the brain with 11C-methionine and 18F-FET in the diagnostics of brain tumours
- PET/CT scan of the neck and chest with 11C-methionine for the diagnostics of parathyroid adenoma
- PET scan of the brain with 18F-Vizamyl for the diagnostics of beta-amyloid presence in patients with dementia
- PET/CT scan of the torso with 18F/11C-Choline in the diagnostics of hepatocellular carcinoma
- PET/CT with 68Ga-DOTATOC for the diagnostics of neuroendocrine tumours
- PET/CT with 68Ga-PSMA for the diagnostics of prostate cancer
Conventional nuclear medicine
- Whole-body bone scan and three-phase scintigraphy of the skeleton
- Whole-body scintigraphy of the bone marrow
- Scintigraphy of inflammation with labelled leukocytes (Leukoscint, Leukoscan, Scintimun)
- Scintigraphic localisation of the sentinel lymph node
- Lymphoscintigraphy of lower extremities
- Parathyroid scintigraphy with sestaMIBI
- Examination of the presynaptic dopaminergic transport in the basal ganglia of the brain (DaTSCAN)
- Scintigraphy of tumours at the receptor level using labelled octreotide (OctreoScan, Tektrotyd)
- Myocardial sympathetic innervation imaging with 123I-MIBG
- Equilibrium radionuclide ventriculography (MUGA)
- Hepar scintigraphy on differential diagnosis of hemangioma