Nuclear Medicine

Chief Physician

Dr. med Peter Matheja

The Clinic for Nuclear Medicine at the St. Franziskus Hospital has been fitted out with the latest equipment, including a single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) unit. The most important investigations carried out in the department include:

  • Bone (skeletal) scintigraphy
  • Cardiac scintigraphy
  • Lung scintigraphy (perfusion and ventilation)
  • Thyroid sonography (ultrasound)
  • Thyroid scintigraphy and fine needle puncture
  • Parathyroid scintigraphy
  • Renal scintigraphy
  • Liver scintigraphy
  • Scintigraphy of the sentinel lymph nodes
  • Scintigraphy of lymph drainage from the legs
  • Inflammation scintigraphy
  • Bleeding scintigraphy