We treat patients of Stuttgart Clinical Centre with the full range of diagnostic and therapeutic services of nuclear medicine. Therefore, we provide two modern two-head system cameras and a new SPECT/CT-System. There is also a highly modern PET/CT scanner (Biograph Molecular CT (mCT)) with an adaptive 64 slice spiral CT for (neuro-) oncological, neurological and cardiac PET/CT examinations. After establishment of the practice for nuclear medicine and molecular imaging at the Clinic for Nuclear Medicine at Katharinenhospital in January 2013, we are able to offer the full range of diagnostic nuclear medicine facilities to outpatients for the first time.
On our nuclear medicine ward, we treat patients with benign and malignant thyroid diseases by radioactive iodine. Another emphasis is radio peptide therapy for patients with metastasizing neuroendocrine tumours, selective internal radiotherapy (SIRT) of malignant tumours and palliative pain therapy due to painful osseous metastases. We also offer the facilities to treat children with neuroblastoma by radionuclide therapy while they are accompanied by their parents.
All clinically relevant nuclear medical diagnostic procedures, including:
Therapy with unsealed radionuclides:
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
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6 | 6 | 6 | Available beds |
447* | 476 | 462 | Inpatient cases |
3.2 | 3.4 | 3.4 | Length of stay in days |
* Reduction of cases between reconstruction measures
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
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1.345 | 1.335 | 1.380 | PET / CT examinations |
439* | 476 | 462 | Nuclear medicine therapies (Radioiodine therapy/radio-peptide therapy/SIRT) |
217 | 235 | 210 | Sentinel lymph node scintigraphy |
* Reduction of cases between reconstruction measures