CIREN’S Department of brain Nuclear Medicine offers NeuroSPECT service aimed at the detection and assessment of brain vascular diseases, the differential diagnosis of dementias and the identification of an epileptic focus in partial epilepsies on the base of the temporal lobe, refractory to medical treatment and possible surgical solution. Other applications, fundamentally related with investigations on Parkinson’s Disease, are within the scope of clinical research in a progressive consolidation process as routine tests. The Department has an SMV-DST-Lxi dual head gamma camera and a ZLC-3700 single Head SIEMENS camera.

Other Nuclear Medicine studies for the detection of functional alterations are also performed by this Department related to other organs, among which are studies on renal, bone, cardiovascular and thyroid systems.