Nuclear medicine is the branch of medicine that uses low-level radioactive sources in liquid, swallowable or injectable form.
At the Clinique de Genolier, our Nuclear Medicine Centre is open to all patients, whether for diagnostic, disease monitoring or therapeutic purposes.
Using low-level radioactive tracers specific to each disease, it is possible to offer non-invasive diagnosis for the following main disease groups:
Before becoming a diagnotic speciality, nuclear medicine was first and foremost a therapeutic discipline. Today, treatment is possible for the following conditions:
The centre's nuclear doctors contribute their expertise and take part in the following tumour boards:
Clinique de Genolier:
Nyon Hospital (GHOL):
In oncology, the initial care of patients is based on a precise diagnosis and extension assessment. Assessing the response to treatment is also of crucial importance. In this context, the functional imaging provided by PET/CT offers a precise and comprehensive analysis of the patient's overall tumour involvement, both primary and metastatic.
PET/CT can also be used to detect inflammatory or infectious conditions, whether vascular, organic or prosthetic.
In cardiology, a PET/CT scan of myocardial perfusion under pharmacological stress is a non-invasive examination technique for assessing the blood supply to the heart muscle and thus detecting ischaemia.
From a neurological point of view, PET/CT enables us to establish the differential diagnosis of cognitive disorders.
Bone scintigraphy enables functional analysis of the skeleton in the context of trauma, oncology or inflammation. The radiotracer used is technetium-99m (Tc-99m). It detects bone metastases, fractures, loosening of prostheses and osteoarticular infections and inflammations.
Lung scintigraphy provides highly sensitive mapping of pulmonary perfusion and ventilation. It will detect pulmonary embolisms and criteria for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
DATSCAN brain scintigraphy is a functional diagnostic test that explores the density of dopamine transporters. It is used to diagnose Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.
Sentinel lymph node screening is used to locate the first lymph node in the lymphatic chain draining a cancer. The most frequent indications are breast cancer, ENT cancer and melanoma.
Hepatobiliary scintigraphy is used to assess liver function and excretion.
Red blood cell marking is used to detect digestive extravasation in cases of suspected digestive haemorrhage.
Internal vector radiotherapy involves administering a radiopharmaceutical drug that binds specifically to tumour cells in order to irradiate the tumour tissue in a targeted manner. The main targets treated are liver, prostate and neuroendocrine tumours.
To treat synovitis in chronic inflammatory rheumatism, radioisotopic synoviorthesis or "radiosynoviorthesis" aims to achieve synovectomy by atrophy or necrosis of the hypertrophic synovial villi.
