How Big Does a Hospital Need to be to have a Department of Nuclear Medicine?

[Rubycon]

Anyone know?

 

[zanejohnson]

not that big i dont think... i remember something nuclear they did when i was in a hospital in Dallas

(yes i know that sounds hillabilly as fuck)


looks like any biggish city's hospital has one:

http://my.clevelandclinic.org/nuclear_medicine/default.aspx

http://www.unchealthcare.org/site/nuclear_medicine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_medicine

 

[OverVolt]

Where I work we have ~300 beds and have a nuclear pharmacy.

 

[Newbian]

Where I work we have ~300 beds and have a nuclear pharmacy.

Do they have any wmd or at least very hot nurses that can be considered one? :biggrin:

 

[uclaLabrat]

any place big enough to do PET is going to have to have a cyclotron, or be very close to a place that does.

 

[herm0016]

not very big. even portage health way up in the middle of lake superior has a dept. of nuclear medicine. maybe 50k people within 100 miles is all.


why do you ask? looking for some sources?

<< NRC certified and handles both chem and electronic sources.

 

[disappoint]

any place big enough to do PET is going to have to have a cyclotron, or be very close to a place that does.

 

[The Sauce]

Any hospital other than a critical access hospital would have to have a nuclear medicine department. Can't do much in modern medicine without one.

 

[TraumaRN]

Any hospital other than a critical access hospital would have to have a nuclear medicine department. Can't do much in modern medicine without one.

Pretty much this.

 

[uclaLabrat]

18F is far and away the most common radiotracer element, and it's used in 5-fluorodeoxyglucose. 18F has a half life of 110 minutes, so you'd better make that shit quick and get it into the patient. According to wiki, 24 hours is something like 13 half lives, and this time includes the time needed to SYNTHESIZE the molecule.

I'm a synthetic chemist and it amazes me they can pull that off.

 

[Gibsons]

18F is far and away the most common radiotracer element, and it's used in 5-fluorodeoxyglucose. 18F has a half life of 110 minutes, so you'd better make that shit quick and get it into the patient. According to wiki, 24 hours is something like 13 half lives, and this time includes the time needed to SYNTHESIZE the molecule.

I'm a synthetic chemist and it amazes me they can pull that off.

No kidding... Someone spent a lot of time optimizing that reaction.

 

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[Tobolo]

18F is far and away the most common radiotracer element, and it's used in 5-fluorodeoxyglucose. 18F has a half life of 110 minutes, so you'd better make that shit quick and get it into the patient. According to wiki, 24 hours is something like 13 half lives, and this time includes the time needed to SYNTHESIZE the molecule.

I'm a synthetic chemist and it amazes me they can pull that off.

That is pretty dang impressive.

 

[uclaLabrat]

That is pretty dang impressive.

I think the synthesis is something like a 3 step process that they developed using a kit and can be done in ~ 2 h if I remember correctly. Pretty ridiculous. I'm not sure if it's Tobias Ritter's group that did it, but it would make sense.

Most I ever saw in the lab was an undergrad that optimized a 5 step reaction sequence that could pull something like 10 g of material through in 24-36 h. One column. That was ballin.

 

[Rubycon]

That is pretty dang impressive.

Yes it is.

The longer lasting sources such as Cs-137 are of more interest to me however.

 

[herm0016]

You are looking for a gamma source then? elaborate.....