Currently, Nuclear Medicine departments can be found in 20+ BC hospitals and it is fast becoming a globally recognized alternative to other diagnostic tests that determine the presence of disease based on structural appearance. With the use of specialized equipment, Nuclear Medicine determines the cause of the medical problem based on the function of the organ, tissue or bone.
However, despite its rapid expansion as a world renounced field, Nuclear Medicine is under-utilized as many practicing physicians are unaccustomed to this modern medicine. |
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The Department was started by the late Dr. Bruno Schober, former Dean of Medicine of Palacky University in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia. It is currently under the medical supervision of Philip Cohen MD FRCP(C). It is dedicated to bringing exemplary and state-of-the-art Nuclear Medicine technology to the people of the North Shore, including the renowned skiing community of Whistler, B.C.
Pacific Nuclear Medicine is located at Lion's Gate Hospital in North Vancouver. It offers medical expertise in the practice of Nuclear Medicine, in such areas as Brain SPECT, Y-90 therapies for rheumatoid arthritis, radio-iodine labelling of novel research agents, including I-124, and new applications of SPECT in medicine. Lion's Gate Hospital Nuclear Medicine Department is situated under the soaring majestic peaks of The Lions, a pair of mountain-tops which resemble a pair of regal seated lions, on Vancouver's beautiful North Shore. The department includes a two GE Optima SPECT-CT 4 slice and an Eclipse Picker Prism Brain SPECT. The department also has a Hologic Bone Density System for osteoporosis diagnosis and research into new treatments of osteoporosis.. |