Patients to benefit from nuclear medicine center in Mashhad

Nuclear medicine is a branch of medical imaging that uses radioactive material to diagnose and treat disease. Diagnostic procedures are used on different organs of the body such as the bones, brain, kidney, lung, heart, digestive system and urinary tract.

The procedure includes labeling the radiopharmaceutical of the desired organ with a radioactive material and injecting it into the patient’s body; by doing so, the material begins to accumulate in that organ; then imaging is performed using a gamma camera. Unlike radiology methods that generally provide information about an organ’s construction, nuclear medicine procedures obtain information about their functioning.

On Saturday May 08, 2016, the second phase of Sina Polyclinic & Diagnostic Center in Iran’s northeast city of Mashhad was inaugurated in an official ceremony. The new building has 30 thousand square meters of space with the most advanced facilities and medical equipment. But what makes it really important is its state-of-the-art nuclear medicine department.

With the most advanced nuclear medicine department in Iran, Sina PCC can provide services to cancer patients from all over the country. It can also be an ideal destination for medical tourism. The new phase of Sina PCC has seven advanced operation rooms in which surgeons can communicate with other operation rooms all over the world. The Center can accept between 50 to 100 patients every day at its nuclear medicine department.