Nuclear Medicine

The Department of Nuclear Medicine was established in 1997. The department is equipped with one Siemens Biograph mCT 64 PET/CT system, one Siemens Symbia Intevo 16 SPECT/CT system, one GE D670 SPECT/CT system, one technetium gas generator, one C-13 breath test analyzer, and multiple advanced in vitro immunoassay instruments, including γ immunoradiometric counters and electrochemiluminescence analyzers.

Our department has always been clinically oriented and is committed to providing patients with lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary hypertension, bronchiectasis, tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, difficult-to-diagnose pulmonary diseases, and Helicobacter pylori infection with distinctive, high-quality diagnostic and therapeutic care. The department’s main imaging examinations include PET/CT imaging, bone imaging, pulmonary ventilation imaging, pulmonary blood-flow perfusion imaging, and deep venous imaging of both lower extremities; its main in vitro diagnostic tests include tumor markers, thyroid function tests, and the C-13 breath test; treatment primarily consists of 89SrCl2 therapy to relieve pain in patients with multiple bone metastases. High-quality diagnostic and therapeutic services have received broad recognition from patients and clinicians, with more than 100,000 patient visits served annually. The department’s WeChat official account, “约见核医” (“Meet Nuclear Medicine”), provides detailed information about our department’s diagnostic and therapeutic services. We sincerely invite you to follow it.

The department enjoys a good reputation in the field. The department director and academic leaders hold concurrent positions in multiple academic organizations: Council Member of the Nuclear Medicine Branch of the Chinese Nuclear Society; member of the Functional Imaging Group of the Nuclear Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; young member of the Nuclear Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; member of the Working Committee on Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Standards of the Nuclear Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; standing committee member and committee member of the Nuclear Medicine Branch of the Chinese Ethnic Health Association; deputy director of the In Vitro Immunology Branch of the Shanghai Nuclear Society; deputy director of the Nuclear Medicine Specialty Committee of the Shanghai Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine; committee member of the Shanghai Nuclear Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; committee member of the Oncology Radiotherapy and Imaging Professional Committee of the Shanghai Nuclear Society; committee member of the Translational Medicine Committee of the Shanghai Anti-Cancer Association; committee member of the Oncology Imaging Professional Committee of the Shanghai Anti-Cancer Association; member of the Shanghai Nuclear Medicine Quality Control Expert Group; member of the Expert Pool for Medical Appraisal of the Shanghai Medical Association; invited peer-review expert for the Chinese Medical Association’s Chinese Journal of Clinical Physicians; executive editorial board member of the Chinese Journal of Medical Practice; and editorial board member of the Journal of Oncology Imaging.

The department currently has 19 medical, technical, and nursing staff members, including 2 doctors with doctoral degrees and 8 with master’s degrees; 2 senior professional title holders, 1 associate senior professional title holder, and 10 intermediate professional title holders; and 1 master’s graduate supervisor. The department has undertaken projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Science and Technology, and the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning, among others; published more than 20 SCI papers; served as chief editor of 1 monograph, deputy chief editor of 1 monograph, and contributing editor of 6 monographs. The department is a training site for master’s students and has trained many graduate students. It also undertakes national continuing education program courses and theoretical teaching for undergraduate and graduate students of Tongji University, and accepts visiting trainees year-round.