Nuclear Medicine
Lower Columbia Nuclear Medicine and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) Imaging is an imaging practice providing a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for patients in the Lower Columbia Region. Our goal is to provide excellent medical imaging in a patient sensitive manner. Our staff of Board Certified Nuclear Medicine physicians and technologists strive to ensure that procedures and results are provided in the most accurate, timely and caring manner possible.
Nuclear Medicine
Lower Columbia Nuclear Medicine and PET Imaging provides a wide range of nuclear functional imaging and therapeutic procedures encompassing the musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, nervous, genitourinary, cardiovascular, endocrine and respiratory systems.
PET (Positron Emission Tomography) Imaging
Lower Columbia Nuclear Medicine and PET Imaging provides PET Imaging for the diagnosis, staging, and restaging of various cancers, evaluation of cardiac viability, and for brain imaging to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease and to localize seizure focus.
SPECIAL NOTE: All isotopes are special orders. If an exam must be canceled, please notify Nuclear Medicine 24 hours prior to the exam.
Procedure Guidelines
General Considerations
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Almost all nuclear medicine procedures require intravenous injections of radioactive pharmaceuticals.
- Pregnancy and breast feeding is a strong relative contraindication to nuclear medicine scanning. Cases will be assessed individually by attending and nuclear medicine physicians.
Procedure List
Use the links below for specific test information.