The Nuclear Medicine Unit at the Germans Trias Hospital started providing assistance on March 1994. Its activities include mainly functional imaging diagnostic tests with radiopharmaceuticals.

Both providing assistance and training, as well as research have grown very consistently throughout the years, becoming a benchmark hospital in Nuclear Medicine in the region comprising Barcelonès Nord and Maresme:

• The three thousand patients attended to annually during the nineties, have become more than eight thousand today
• From working exclusively with our own patients, we now provide assistance to centers throughout the territory (hospitals and primary health care facilities)

Presently, the diagnostic activities takes place in a collaboration environment with other imaging diagnostics professionals and includes anatomical examinations. Thus, in the last years, a great boost has been given to hibrid studies of Nuclear Medicine and Computed Tomography (SPECT CT) in different areas of care: oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, etc. 

Another field of development are the surgery techniques aided by Nuclear Medicine, such as the sentinel lymph node in breast cancer and melanoma, among others. In this field, the department is unique in the territory and it collaborates amb different surgery departments in the region.

In parallel, the Nuclear Medicine Unit has developed intense research activities and it is also involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, as well a continuous training. In the unit, several doctoral theses have been developed, multiple articles have been published in scientific publications and the professionals have participated in numerous scientific conferences and meetings.

If you have been directed to the Nuclear Medicine Unit of the Germans Trias Hospital, you must know that the people working in it make up a professionally qualified team with a lot of experience in its task.

 Nuclear Medicine is an unknown force for many of the users of the health care system. It is a medical specialty that enables the diagnostic of different diseases. Even though radiactive substances are used, these are completely safe for the patients, their families and the unit's personnel.

How is a Nuclear Medicine conducted?

Usually, diagnostic tests the department performs consist in administering a radiopharmaceutical via venous injection. Then a wait time is needed for the substance to distribute in the body. This wait time may vary depending on the technique required. Then, images are obtained with a device called gamma camera.

Recommendations

If you suspect or are indeed pregnant, please informe the department's personnel. 

The Nuclear Medicine Unit at the Germans Trias Hospital started providing assistance on March 1994. Its activities include mainly functional imaging diagnostic tests with radiopharmaceuticals.

Both providing assistance and training, as well as research have grown very consistently throughout the years, becoming a benchmark hospital in Nuclear Medicine in the region comprising Barcelonès Nord and Maresme:

• The three thousand patients attended to annually during the nineties, have become more than eight thousand today
• From working exclusively with our own patients, we now provide assistance to centers throughout the territory (hospitals and primary health care facilities)

Presently, the diagnostic activities takes place in a collaboration environment with other imaging diagnostics professionals and includes anatomical examinations. Thus, in the last years, a great boost has been given to hibrid studies of Nuclear Medicine and Computed Tomography (SPECT CT) in different areas of care: oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, etc. 

Another field of development are the surgery techniques aided by Nuclear Medicine, such as the sentinel lymph node in breast cancer and melanoma, among others. In this field, the department is unique in the territory and it collaborates amb different surgery departments in the region.

In parallel, the Nuclear Medicine Unit has developed intense research activities and it is also involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, as well a continuous training. In the unit, several doctoral theses have been developed, multiple articles have been published in scientific publications and the professionals have participated in numerous scientific conferences and meetings.

Undergraduate teaching

Professionals in the department conduct the Clinical Radiology class for UAB's medicine degree at the Can Ruti campus.

Postgraduate teaching

Nuclear Medicine takes in the rotation of residents of other departments.

Continuous training

The department participates in several continuing training courses directed to physicians and the professionals in the Nurses department as well as from different scientific societies.