Radiation Medicine Centre (RMC), a part of Bhabha Atomic Energy Research Centre, India is situated at Tata Memorial Hospital. They are the pioneering Institution in the country where many Doctors and Technicians are trained in Nuclear Medicine. They have several Gamma Cameras installed in their Hospital and also have inpatient facility for treatment of thyroid cancer. They are also a Teaching Hospital. In addition, they get Nuclear Medicine Physicians / Technicians from other countries as Delegates for Training / Conferences etc.

Now RMC has decided to purchase GE Cyclotron with PET-Advance (Positron Emission Tomography) Scanner for the diagnosis of various diseases.

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Cerebral sarcoidosis. Contrast - enhanced T1-weighted (A) and T2-weighted (B) axial MR images show an enhancing lesion in the left temporal lobe with marked edema. This lesion was initially believed to be a glioma. On axial (C) and coronal (D) [ 18 F] FDG PET images, the lesion displays high tracer uptake, which therefore was interpreted as a high grade tumour.
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Metastasis of follicular thyroid carcinoma. A: T2 - weighted axial MR image demonstrates a left frontal mass lesion. B: [ 18 F] FDG PET shows the lesion to be partly ametabolic, with the medical rim of the tumour displaying intermediate tracer uptake. The lesion was histologically proven to be metastatic.

This will be India™s first PET Scanner for India for medical diagnostic investigations.

Dr. (Mrs.) A. M. Samuel, Director, Biomedical Group said ia For the first time in India, patients and doctors will have access to a complete high quality detecting PET system with applications in Oncology, Cardiology, Neurology and Psychiatry. ™™ She added id Using the cancer detecting PET technology, doctors will be equipped with more detailed information to detect early and pinpoint disease in the body, and thereby help provide significantly better patient care.lp

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B Surgically proven knee metastsis of malignant melanoma in a 39 year old woman. A: [ 18 F] FDG PET scans show a lesion with markedly increased tracer uptake in the lateral aspect of the left knee. There is an injection artefact in the left lower arm . B: Corresponding MR image of the left knee demonstrates a metastasis in the left lateral femoral condyle.