Nuclear Medicine
About our service
The nuclear medicine service uses unsealed radiopharmaceuticals for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases and dual photon X-ray absorptiometry for the measurement of bone density.
It operates on three hospital sites: Lincoln County Hospital, Pilgrim Hospital Boston and Grantham and District Hospital. The service is provided by clinical scientists, radiologists, nurses, clinical technologists and administrative staff.
The individual facilities and services are:
- Lincoln County Hospital:
- Radiopharmaceutical manufacturing
- Diagnostic imaging on three gamma cameras
- Non-imaging diagnostics
- Therapy
- Bone densitometry
- Pilgrim Hospital, Boston:
- Radiopharmaceutical manufacturing
- Diagnostic imaging on one gamma camera
- Non-imaging diagnostics
- Therapy
- Grantham and District Hospital:
- Diagnostic imaging on one gamma camera
- Non-imaging diagnostics
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