Nuclear Medicine
The division provides a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine services with major focuses on the treatment of thyroid diseases and thyroid cancer, as well as radioimmunotherapy of lymphomas. The division serves as a referral center for thyroid cancer and thyroid therapy for western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio.
UPMC has a comprehensive PET imaging center, which includes a state-of-the-art PET chemistry and cyclotron facility — allowing faculty to perform cutting-edge studies such as F-18 FDG-PET for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis.
The division benefits from close relationships with the Department of Radiology’s own PET Research Center and its faculty, as well as the Department of Neurology and the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, which performs and coordinates AD-related clinical and research activities. The division is based at UPMC Presbyterian.