The Department of Nuclear Medicine was founded in 1988 and has grown with the hospital. After more than 30 years, the Nuclear Medicine department has become a specialty department that integrates medical treatment, teaching and scientific research. It is one of the most important clinical disciplines of medicine in China National Nuclear Industry Corporation. The department has 4 senior staff, 3 deputy senior staff and 5 master tutors. The Department of Nuclear Medicine teaches six different professional classes at Soochow University, including the "Undergraduate Nuclear Medicine Program". This department has taught the Clinical Nuclear Medicine course for the "Undergraduate Nuclear Medicine Direction" class of Soochow University since 1989. Many nuclear medicine professionals have been trained here. In 2007, the course was named one of the best at Soochow University.

The Department of Nuclear Medicine has a range of equipment, including PET/CT, SPECT/CT, a positron drug dispenser, an automated labelling module, a high-performance liquid chromatograph, a thin layer scanner, a chemiluminescent immunoassay analyser, a fully automated radioimmunoassay analyser, a PCR lab and other medical equipment.

The Department of Nuclear Medicine currently performs SPECT/CT and PET/CT imaging, radionuclide therapy, and in vitro labelling immunoassay testing.

SPECT/CT examination: Using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT/CT) to examine the patient, we can obtain the functional image results of human organs, which can be used as the basis for disease diagnosis. The main projects include whole-body bone imaging (early diagnosis of bone metastases); thyroid imaging (diagnosis of various types of thyroid diseases); myocardial perfusion imaging and cardiac function measurement (non-invasive diagnosis of coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, cardiomyopathy and evaluation of function); cerebral perfusion imaging (observation of cerebral infarction and other ischemic cerebral diseases); renal dynamic imaging and function measurement; liver and gallbladder dynamic imaging; localization of Meckels diverticulum; muscle imaging; Bone marrow imaging, etc.

PET/CT: PET/CT is used to examine patients and obtain functional and metabolic images of human tissues and organs. The main projects include: 18F-FDG glucose metabolism imaging (tumor, heart, brain disease), 18F-PSMA imaging (prostate cancer), 18F-FAPI imaging (tumor), 18F-Aβ imaging (Alzheimers disease) and so on.

Radionuclide therapy: Using radioactive drugs to gather in the lesion area with high selectivity and emit special short-range rays to irradiate the lesion tissues intensively, so as to achieve the purpose of inhibitingdestroying the lesion tissues. At present, the main treatment programs include iodine-131 treatment for hyperthyroidism, phosphorus-32 dressing treatment and radionuclide treatment for bone metastatic cancer.

In vitro testing and analysis: mainly carrying out tumor marker series, thyroid hormone series, pituitary hormone series, glucocorticoid series, sex hormone series drug concentration and eugenics prenatal screening and other items of testing.

Clinical PCR testing: newly carried out human papillomavirus HPV21 subtype genotyping test, routinely carried out Hepatitis B virus DNA test and various types of sexually transmitted pathogens DNA test.

Data updated until Nov 2024