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Profiles and Characteristics
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Department of Nuclear Medicine, China Medical University Hospital was founded in July 1993 and officially opened in August. With full support of Chairman With Dr.'s full support (he is), Director Dr. Chia-Hung Kao returned to his alma mater in August 2001 to set up the service center for positron emission tomography and add a dual-head gamma scintillation camera with variable angle in May 2002. Then, using the space in the ground floor of Li-Fu medical building to re-planning and establish the scan rooms and radioimmunoassay laboratory. About equipment, we now have two single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scanner and a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner. About staffs, there are two nuclear medicine specialist physician (Director Dr. Chia-Hung Kao and physician Dr. Shung-Shung Sun), two resident, five medical radiation technologist, and three administrative assistants and nurses to provide clinical nuclear medicine functional examination, and to provide the best services for patients.
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Staffs
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Director
Chia-Hung Kao
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Nuclear medicine, positron mission tomography
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Specialist Physician
Shung-Shung Sun |
Nuclear medicine |
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Resident
Te-Chun Hsieh
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Nuclear medicine |
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Resident
Chih-Hsiu Wang
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Nuclear medicine |
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Medical Radiation Technologist
Kuo-Yang Yen
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Positron emission tomography technology |
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Medical Radiation Technologist
Shan-Chieh Teng |
Nuclear medicine technology |
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Medical Radiation Technologist
Ya-Heu Lai
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Nuclear medicine technology |
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Medical Radiation Technologist
Yi-Ru Jiang
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Nuclear medicine technology |
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Medical Radiation Technologist
Jie-Hung Lai
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Nuclear medicine technology |
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Administrative Assistant
Hung-Yu Chen |
Administrative assistant and nurse |
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Administrative Assistant
Hsin-Yi Luo
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Administrative assistant |
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Special Assistant
Yin-Chi Luo
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Positron emission tomography center special assistant and nurse |
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Medical News |
| Positron emission tomography (PET) is a non-invasive and functional high-tech imaging tool with a high rate of diagnosis for cancer cell and application in the brain and the heart attack checks. After injecting After injecting positron emission radiopharmaceutical (such as F-18 labeled fluoro-2-deoxyglucose, FDG) into the body, PET image can show clear hot spots due to the difference characteristic on metabolism rate between tumor cells and normal cells and show small lesions before tissue structure had changed. The cancer diagnosis rates is as high as about 87~91%. |
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Medical Equipment |
Currently we have advanced dedicated nuclear medicine gamma camera and computer to acquire static, dynamic, local, whole body and tomographic images (SPECT). Quantitative information can be obtained by calculating and analyzing these images. In May 2002, we introduce the nuclear medicine diagnostic tool-positron emission tomography scanner (GE Medical Systems Company, PET Advance NXi Scanner), formally establish a positron emission tomography center (PET Center).
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Imaging and Peripheral Equipment
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Dual-head gamma camera |
GE Millennium MG |
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Dual-head gamma camera |
GE Millennium MG |
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90o/180o dual-head gamma camera |
ADAC Vertex plus |
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PET scanner |
GE PET Advance NXi |
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Radionuclide dose calibrator. |
Atomlab 300 |
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Gamma counter |
Packard Cobra II |
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Radiation Detection |
Survey meter |
Victoreen 190 107635 |
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Survey meter |
TA Inovision TBM-3 004745 |
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Contamination monitor |
SE Inspector 08574 |
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Contamination monitor |
SE Inspector 08449 |
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Personal alarm dosimeter |
Polimaster PM1203M 300996 |
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Future Prospection |
| All colleagues in the Department of Nuclear Medicine will always have efforts and spirit to pursuit innovation and progression to provide more valuable data for physicians and provide patients with better services. |
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