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Division of Nuclear Medicine

Recent Publications

Lalonde M, Birnie D, Ruddy, TD, deKemp RA, Wassenaar RW:  SPECT blood pool phase anslysis can accurately and reproducibly quantify mechanical dyssynchrony.  J Nucl Cardiol 2010:5;803-10.  Epub 2010 Apr 29.

Wassenaar R, O’Connor D, Dej B, Ruddy TD, Birnie D:  Optimization and validate of radionuclide aniography phase analysis parameters for quantification of mechanics.  J Nucl Cardiol 2009:16(6);895-903.  Epub 2009 Jul 22.

Birnie D, deKemp RA, Ruddy TD, Tang AS, Guo A, Williams K, Wassenaar R, Lalonde M, Beanlands RS:  Effect of lateral wall scar on reverse remodeling with cardiac resynchronization therapy.  Heart Rhythm 2009:6(12);1721-1726.  Epub 2009 Aug 14.

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Overview

The Division of Nuclear Medicine at The Ottawa Hospital is geographically located at all three campuses; General, Civic and Riverside.  The Division which is the largest in the region provides a full range of Nuclear Medicine services to Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec with a catchment population of approximately 1.2 million people.

Clinical Programs

Nuclear Medicine at the General Campus includes an oncologic PET imaging program, general nuclear medicine with bone and pulmonary ventilation perfusion scans as well as cardiac imaging services.  The Civic program includes general nuclear medicine with limited BMD service to the Campus’ Geriatrics Program.  The bulk of the bone mineral denisitometry service is provided at the Riverside campus.

The 3 clinical sites are networked internally at each site and to each other using a Hermes (processing and archiving) network.  The Heart Institute is also linked to the 3 Nuclear Medicine sites providing redundancy across the entire NM network.  Nuclear Medicine scans are exported to The Ottawa Hospital’s corporate Picture Archive Communications System (PACS).  Physician dictation in Nuclear Medicine is supported by voice recognition technology.  The Hospital implemented this technology in 2006 using Nuance’s Powerscribe VR system.

Radiochemistry service is provided through a partnership with GE Healthcare with a radiopharmacy onsite at the Civic Campus.  All radiopharmaceuticals are provided by the GE Healthcare radiopharmacy excepting FDG, which is supplied by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute cyclotron program.  The Nuclear Medicine clinical program at all 3 campuses was accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine Laboratories (ICANL) in 2007 and reaccredited in 2010.

Education

The Postgraduate Nuclear Medicine Residency Program was recently approved by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.  Trainees will rotate through the General, Civic and Riverside Campuses and also through the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac PET programs.

Research

Ongoing clinical research at The Ottawa Hospital includes tomographic imaging with bone and ventilation perfusion scans.  Studies imaging apoptosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease are planned for 2011.

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