NUCLEAR DIAGNOSTICS DIVISION (NDD)

The laboratory of radioactive tracers was established in 1958 at the Institute of Thoracic Surgery of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and in 1964 it became an independent laboratory of radionuclide research methods.
  In 1999, the Laboratory of radioactive tracers was transformed into the Division of nuclear diagnostics, which included:

• Department of radionuclide examination methods,
• Positron-emission tomography center.

PET-Center at A.N. Bakulev NMRC CVS started work in January 2001, it was the first PET center opened in Moscow and the second in Russia.   
Nowadays, 34 permanent employees work in the nuclear diagnostics division. This is a large team of specialists: physicians, radiochemists and physicists. More than 3.5 thousand complex high-precision diagnostic examinations are performed annually for cardiological, oncological and neurological patients.
Professor Irakly Pavlovich Aslanidi, PhD has headed the division since 1991 to the present.
The PET Center works in all major areas of PET diagnostics:

• cardiology;
• diagnostics of inflammation, including infective endocarditis and inflammation in the vascular wall;
• oncology (more than 80% of performed examinations), including hematology, neurooncology and oncourology.

The main direction of department of radionuclide examination methods is cardiology (more than 90% of performed examinations); examinations to diagnose lung, kidney, and skeletal perfusion are also conducted.

1129 patients were examined in the department of radionuclide examination methods, 2026 examinations were performed in 2022.
2268 patients were examined in the positron-emission tomography department, 364 examinations were performed in 2022. Positron emission tomography of the whole body with 18F-PSMA has been developed and put into practice.