Nuclear medicine
300 N. Seventh St. - 701-323-5210

Nuclear Medicine uses radioactive materials to help diagnose earlier and treat a wide variety of diseases and disorders more effectively. Nuclear Medicine results are often combined with the results of other tests to help your doctor get a more accurate report of your condition.

Medcenter One Health Systems now offers Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging services. PET is a medical imaging procedure that provides physicians with information about the body's chemistry, cell function and location of disease.

PET imaging allows physicians to diagnose and determine the extent of various cancers, neurological disorders like Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy and damage to cardiac muscle after a heart attack. Another primary use for PET is staging the progression of cancer and monitoring the success of therapy.

Medcenter One Director of Radiology Wayne Muth said, "PET scans will have a major impact on our clinical evaluations of cancer patients and in many cases will enable our physicians to begin treatment earlier and increase the odds for successful patient outcomes."

For more information, call Medcenter One's Nuclear Medicine Department at 323-5377.