Charles M. Intenzo, MD, Director
Phone: 215-955-6707

The Nuclear Medicine Division provides nuclear medicine training for both nuclear medicine and diagnostic radiology residents.  The Nuclear Medicine Residency Program is a ACGME approved residency, in existence since 1981.  The teaching responsibilities are shared by staff attending physicians, a radiochemist, a radiophysicist, and other basic science personnel within the departments of Radiology and Radiation Oncology.  Approximately 13,000 nuclear medicine procedures are preformed anually by the division.  There are four dual-headed SPECT cameras, three triple-headed SPECT cameras, four single-headed gamma cameras, a state-of-the-art PET scanner with PET/CT fusion, as well as a bone densitometer.  In addition, in a seperate area on campus, there is a dedicated research gamma camera and a micro-PET scanner for the evaluation of PET radiopharmaceuticals in laboratory animals.  The diagnostic nuclear medicine services includes in vivo imaging as well as in vitro testing, and the therapuetic nuclear medicine services include the use unsealed of radioisotope sources, such as radioiodine, radiopharmaceuticals for the palliative treatment of bony metastases, somatostatin receptor therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals, and radioimmunotherapy.

Active reasearch activities in the division include expanded applications of radioimmunotherapy in various tumors, cariovascular nuclear medicine, infection imaging with radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies and PET tracers, and the evalutaion of dementia.