Nuclear Medicine

Ruijin Hospital’s Department of Nuclear Medicine is a national clinical key specialty and a Shanghai clinical key specialty, a national clinical pharmacology base, and a key discipline of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, and holds a License for the Use of Radioactive Pharmaceuticals (Category IV). Ruijin Hospital is one of the five medical institutions initially approved by the National Health Commission to be equipped with PET/MR. In recent years, the department has consistently ranked among the top 10 in nuclear medicine in the “China Hospital Specialty Comprehensive Ranking” published by the Fudan University Institute of Hospital Management. The department is equipped with hardware including 1 PET/MR scanner, 2 conventional PET/CT scanners, 1 2-metre PET/CT scanner, 3 SPECT/CT scanners, 1 SPECT scanner, 3 bone densitometers, 1 cyclotron, a GMP radiopharmaceutical labelling laboratory, 13C-urea breath-test detection equipment, and 1 small-animal micro-PET/CT scanner for medical research; it has a radionuclide therapy ward with 13 beds. The department’s physician team currently comprises 22 members, including 5 with senior professional titles, 6 with associate senior professional titles, 7 with intermediate professional titles, and 4 with junior professional titles. In addition, Ruijin Hospital’s Clinical Research Center for Molecular Imaging also employs 5 “Guangci Professors,” who are responsible for artificial-intelligence medical imaging, experimental molecular imaging, multimodal molecular probes, and PET and MR image processing and analysis. Over the past 10 years, the department has published 104 SCI papers in high-impact international journals, including Nat Commun, Eur J Nucl Med Mol I, EClinicalMedicine, EBioMedicine, Clin Nucl Med, Adv Funct Mater, Biomaterials, Cancer Lett, and others. The department has undertaken 2 projects under the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 21 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 5 provincial- and ministerial-level projects, and 16 bureau- and university-level projects. It has received 3 awards, including 1 Third Prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Award, 1 Third Prize of the Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award, and 1 Third Prize of the Shanghai Huaxia Medical Science and Technology Award. Four patents have been granted.