Nuclear Medicine at Glen Cove
The staff in the Department of Radiology provides comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine services to the patients at Glen Cove Hospital and the community. The primary philosophy is to provide a timely and high quality standard of service to all patients and physicians of the community. These services are available for both hospital and ambulatory patients. The department has three gamma camera systems. Glen Cove Hospital has received accreditation in Nuclear Medicine as the result of a recent survey by the American College of Radiology. The ACR, headquartered in Reston, VA., awards accreditation to facilities for the achievement of the high practice standards after peer-review evaluation of its practice. The ACR is a national organization serving more than 32,000 diagnostic/interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists and medical physicist with programs for focusing on the practice of medical imaging and delivering of comprehensive health care services.
Department capabilities:
One Dual Head system is capable of performing routine nuclear medicine imaging including whole body, tomographic, and regional views. Additionally, this camera can perform positron coincidence imaging which is currently approved for evaluation of lung nodule; lung cancer, melanoma, recurrent colorectal cancer, and lymphoma.
A second Dual Head system is variable angle camera with attenuation correction capabilities that is optimal for cardiac imaging, and also utilized for all types of general nuclear medicine imaging.
The third camera is a single head, SPECT and whole body capable, that can perform scans without requiring transfer of the patient from bed or stretcher in certain types of procedures. This camera will be replaced by a new Dual Head system in late 2004. The new system will be capable of performing routine nuclear medicine imaging including whole body, tomographic and regional views. Additionally this new camera will be able to perform scans without transferring the patient from bed or stretcher in certain types of procedures.
All of the Nuclear Medicine Technologists employed at Glen Cove Hospital are ARRT registered or NMTCB certified to bring you the highest quality of care and imaging.
The attending physicians in Nuclear Medicine are licensed by New York State to handle radioactive materials and are Board Certified by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine or the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology.
Services
- Thyrogen stimulation Imaging for Thyroid Cancer
- Positron emission tomography (PET) of F18 FDG by coincidence camera detection
- Monoclonal antibody imaging of prostate carcinomas
- Procedures for breast and neuroendocrine tumor imaging
- Determination of H. pylori gastric infection by C14 urea breath test
- Samarium (Sm153) and Strontium (Sr89) therapy for palliation of pain due to bone metastases
- Radioimmuno therapy for Lymphoma (Zevalin)
- Sentinel Lymph node evaluation for breast cancer and melanoma.
- Pharmacological cardiac stress testing.
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Service Leader
Steven Weck, MD
Chairman, Department of Radiology
516-674-7566
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