Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Stand Up MRI
Computerized Tomography (CT)
Diagnostic X-ray and Fluoroscopy
Nuclear Medicine and Nuclear Cardiology
Bone Densitometry (DEXA)
Mammography
Ultrasonography
PET Scanning
Special Procedures
Nuclear Medicine Studies
  • Bone Scan – Planar and/or S.P.E.C.T.
  • Brain Imaging (Technetium Neurolite)
  • Esophageal Transit Study
  • Gastric Emptying Study
  • Gated Blood Pool Scan
  • G.I. Bleeding Scan
  • Hepatobiliary Scan
  • DISIDA Meckel's Scan
  • Liver/Spleen Scan
  • Parathyroid Scan
  • Renal Scan
  • Liver Hemangioma Study
  • Cardiac Examinations (Stress Thallium and Sestamibi Studies)
  • Abscess/Infection Imaging with Gallium or Labeled White Cells
  • Testicular Scan
  • Thyroid Uptake and Scan
  • Tumor (lymphoma) imaging (Planar and S.P.E.C.T.) with Gallium
  • Ventilation Perfusion Lung Scan
Theraputic Nuclear Medicine
  • Radioiodine Therapy for Hyperthyroidism
  • Strontium-89 Palliation of Skeletal Metastatic Disease
Nuclear Cardiology
  • Stress Thallium
  • Sestamibi Studies
  • M.U.G.A.
Please call us if a desired study does not appear on this list and we will make every effort to accommodate your needs.

TRICAT is affiliated with the department of Nuclear Medicine at St. Lukes/Roosevelt Hospital Center, as well as other prominent Universities and Hospitals in New York and New Jersey. This affords a unique advantage to our patients – always having radiologists with the ability to utilize the latest academic techniques and medical advancements. Tricat's affiliation with these universities and hospitals puts us in a category not shared by any other centers in New Jersey. All nuclear studies are interpreted by both our staff radiologist and Dr. Steven Parmett, site director of nuclear medicine at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center.

What is Nuclear Medicine?
Nuclear Medicine is a safe, painless technique for showing the shape, structure, and function of organs, soft tissues, bones, and diagnosing abnormalities therein. Nuclear Medicine scans are especially helpful in finding and treating defects in the structure of an organ (such as a blockage), pockets of infection (abscesses), unsuspected fractures, degenerative change, or tumors. Nuclear Medicine scans often can identify abnormalities very early in the progression of a disease, a time when there may be a more successful prognosis.

Nuclear Medicine uses a tiny amount of radioactive "tracer," or radiopharmaceutical, that goes to specific organs, bones, or tissues. The tracer may be administered orally or by injection a few minutes to five hours before the scan is performed, depending on your type of procedure. Once in position, the tracer emits gamma rays that are detected by a special camera; it works with computers to form images that provide data about the body area in question. The Nuclear Medicine scan takes approximately 30-60 minutes. A trained radiologist will interpret the resulting images and the report will be sent to your doctor.

Nuclear Medicine procedures are very safe. The amount of radiation is tiny and your body usually eliminates the tracer material within 24 hours.

Nuclear Medicine - both the field in general and the practice at TRICAT - is undergoing a revolution and a renaissance. We have just installed a top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art nuclear medicine imaging unit, the General Electric Millennium MG. The Millennium not only improves the quality of all our nuclear imaging studies, but expands our capabilities. We now provide, for example, cardiac ejection fraction as a routine part of all stress sestamibi myocardial perfusion scans.

We are continuing to provide excellent nuclear medicine and nuclear cardiology services. TRICAT draws on the professional and technical expertise of one of the finest nuclear medicine departments in the world. Equally important, meticulous care is taken in the examination of each of our patients. A physician is involved in not only the interpretation, but the performance of every study. Pertinent historical, physical examination, laboratory, and imaging data are gathered and correlated with scan findings to generate the most helpful report possible.

Our nuclear medicine physicians welcome the opportunity to speak with you - to discuss the results of a particular scan, to help you choose the most appropriate examination for a particular patient, or to discuss any issue which may be of concern to you. We look forward to hearing from you.