Radiology Residency Program

Department Divisions

Nuclear Medicine

The division of Nuclear Medicine provides a full-service clinical laboratory and is extremely active in research and development. Nuclear cardiologists Jeffrey A. Leppo, M.D., and Seth T. Dahlberg, M.D., hold dual appointments in Radiology and Medicine and provide fully supervised exercise as well as pharmacologic stress testing. Two nuclear medicine physicians are responsible for non-cardiac work. Robert Licho, M.D., has special interest in clinical SPECT imaging as well as oncologic and renal nuclear medicine. Peter H. Simkin, M.D., contributes his clinical internal medicine experience to the division and has special interest in endocrine and oncologic imaging. The Nuclear Medicine Division has a team of internationally recognized scientists, led by Michael King, Ph.D. and Donald Hnatowich, Ph.D., with a history of extramurally funded research in radiopharmacology, endocrinology, nuclear cardiology, image restoration in nuclear tomographic (SPECT) imaging, and SPECT brain imaging. In addition to extramurally funded work, the division conducts an extensive number of industry-funded research collaborations and multicenter trials as well as small-grant and small non-funded clinical studies.

The division has state-of-the-art camera and computer equipment including four multidetector SPECT cameras and an entirely networked, UNIX/alpha based dedicated computer for each of our cameras. In addition, the division has planar imaging, a thyroid probe, and a central bone densitometer. Current capabilities also include routine gated cardiac SPECT myocardial imaging and sentinel node localization using intraoperative probes. The division of Nuclear Medicine collaborates with the division of Abdominal Imaging in the interpretation of PET-CT.