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Nuclear Medicine

The Institute of Nuclear Medicine is the UK's largest single site nuclear medicine department, serving an ever-larger number of patients (over 19,500 in 2020). It is also one of the most research active departments in Europe. We apply cutting-edge biological research undertaken on the UCL campus to overcome the diseases affecting our patients at University College Hospital and beyond.

About us

The Institute of Nuclear Medicine is highly research active and one of the leading research centres for molecular imaging research in the world. We undertake research across a range a of fields reflecting the wide range of scientific disciplines and range of skills of the staff in the department. The centre covers clinical research, physics, and engineering research as well as radiochemistry and PPI research.

Our core mission is to harness the cutting edge biological research undertaken on the UCL campus, applying it to overcome the diseases affecting our patients at University College Hospital and beyond. We are committed to providing first class research, with first class staff and facilities in both research and clinical areas. The Institute of Nuclear Medicine is one of the most research active departments in Europe.

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Our research

We undertake research across a range of fields reflecting the wide range of scientific disciplines and range of skills of the staff in the department. The centre covers clinical research, physics, and engineering research as well as radiochemistry and PPI research.

Clinical Services (for referrers)

Our institute is based in University College Hospital in Euston. We are the largest single-site Nuclear Medicine department in the UK, and we provide world-class clinical services for patients.

We are the first UK site to be audited twice by the British Nuclear Medicine Society and accredited by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine. We have a continuous and vigorous Governance, Quality Assurance and Quality Control Programme, and our patient services are checked by internationally renowned specialists.

Clinical Services

Equipment

The Institute of Nuclear Medicine at University College Hospital was the first UK site to set up clinical PET/CT and PET/MR services. These continue to offer excellent options for patients.

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PET / CT

Two women operating a PET / MR machine

PET / MR

Lower side view of the GE Discovery 670 SPECT scanner

SPECT / CT


Our experts

Our department has the UK Training Director for Nuclear Medicine, the Chair of the SAT Nuclear Medicine committee, and is represented on Educational Committees of the Royal College of Radiologists, Royal College of Physicians, British Institute of Radiology, National Cancer Research Institute, British Nuclear Medicine Society and the European Association of Nuclear Medicine.

Prof. Ashley Groves

Prof. Ashley Groves
UCL Head of Dept

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Prof. Jamshed Bomanji
UCLH Clinical Head

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Prof. Brian Hutton
UCL Deputy Head of Dept

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Prof. Kris Thielemans
Academic Physics Head

Dr John Dickson (PhD)

Dr John Dickson (PhD)
Head of Clinical Physics

Francesco Fraioli

Dr Francesco Fraioli
Associate Professor

Dr Balaji Ganeshan (PhD)

Dr Balaji Ganeshan (PhD)
Senior Research Fellow

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Dr Kiell Erlandsson (PhD)
Senior Research Fellow

Dr David Lilburn

Dr David Lilburn
Clinical Research Fellow

Dr Andrew Thornton

Dr Andrew Thornton
Clinical Research Fellow

Dr Richard Brown (PhD)

Dr Richard Brown (PhD)
Research Fellow

Robert Shortman

Robert Shortman
Senior Research Nurse, PhD Student

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Raymond Endozo
Superintendent Research Radiographer

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Darren Walls
Superintendent Radiographer

Luke Hoy

Luke Hoy
Senior Fellow, Research Radiographer

Maria Machado

Maria Machado
Senior Research NM Technician

Marie Meagher

Marie Meagher
Senior Research Radiographer

 


Consultants

Dr Irfan Kayani | Consultant Radiologist & Physician

Dr Leon Menezes | Consultant Radiologist & Physician

Dr Stefan Voo | Consultant Nuclear Medicine Physician

Dr Simon Wan | Consultant Radiologist

Dr Asim Afaq | Consultant Radiologist

Dr Deena Neriman | Consultant Radiologist

Physicists

Dr Sarah McQuaid (PhD) | Principal Physicist

April-Louise Smith | Principal Physicist

Dr Marilena Rega (PhD) | Physicist

Dr Matt Aldridge (PhD) | Physicist

Catherine Scott | Physicist

Alex MacKenzie | Physicist

Honorary Members

Prof. Simona Ben-Haim

Prof. Ken Miles

Prof. Peters

PhD students

Ludovica Brusaferri

Elise Emond

Adeyemi Akintonde

Robbie Twyman

Rebecca Gillen

Alexander Whitehead

Ashley Morahan

Francesca Leek

Administration

Hansa Jadeja

Richard Oyibo


Selected Publications

  1. De Cecco CN, Ciolina M ... Ganeshan B, et al. (2016). Performance of diffusion-weighted imaging, perfusion imaging, and texture analysis in predicting tumoral response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancer patients studied with 3T MR: initial experience. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2016 Sep;41(9): 1728-35.
  2. Makanyanga J, Ganeshan B, Rodriguez-Justo M, Bhatnagar G, Groves A, Halligan S, Miles K, Taylor SA (2017). MRI texture analysis (MRTA) of T2-weighted images in Crohn's disease may provide information on histological and MRI disease activity in patients undergoing ileal resection. Eur Radiol. 2017 Feb;27(2): 589-597.
  3. Skogen K, Schulz A, Dormagen JB, Ganeshan B, et al (2016). Diagnostic performance of texture analysis on MRI in grading cerebral gliomas. Eur J Radiol. 2016 Apr;85(4): 824-9.
  4. Bhatnagar G, Makanyanga J, Ganeshan B, Groves A, et al (2016). MRI texture analysis parameters of contrast-enhanced T1-weighted images of Crohn's disease differ according to the presence or absence of histological markers of hypoxia and angiogenesis. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2016 Jul;41(7):1261-9.
  5. Bousse A, Bertolli O ... Hutton BF, Thielemans K (2016). Maximum-likelihood joint image reconstruction and motion estimation with misaligned attenuation in TOF-PET/CT. Phys Med Biol. 2016 Feb 7;61(3):L11-9.
  6. Bousse A, Bertolli O ... Hutton BF, Thielemans K (2016). Maximum-Likelihood Joint Image Reconstruction/Motion Estimation in Attenuation-Corrected Respiratory Gated PET/CT Using a Single Attenuation Map. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2016 Jan;35(1):217-28.
  7. Erlandsson K, Dickson J, Arridge S, Atkinson D, Ourselin S, Hutton BF (2015). Magnetic resonance imaging-guided partial volume correction for positron emission tomography in PET/MRI. PET Clinics 2015.
  8. Holman BF, Cuplov V, Hutton BF, Groves AM, Thielemans K (2016). The effect of respiratory induced density variations on non-TOF PET quantitation in the lung. Phys Med Biol. 2016 Apr 21;61(8):3148-63.
  1. Boscolo Galazzo I, Bomanji JB, Groves AM, Fraioli F, et al. Cerebral metabolism and perfusion in MR-negative individuals with refractory focal epilepsy assessed by simultaneous acquisition of (18)F-FDG PET and arterial spin labelling. Neuroimage Clin. 2016; 11:648-57.
  2. Buchert R, Kluge A, Tossici-Bolt L, Dickson J, et al. (2016)  Reduction in camera-specific variability in [123I]FP-CIT SPECT outcome measures by image reconstruction optimized for multisite settings: impact on age-dependence of the specific binding ratio in the ENC-DAT database of healthy controls. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 
  3. Albert NL, Unterrainer M, Diemling M, Dickson JC, et al. (2016) Implementation of the European multicentre database of healthy controls for [123I]FP-CIT SPECT increases diagnostic accuracy in patients with clinically uncertain parkinsonian syndromes. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 
  4. Meintjes M, Dickson JC, Bomanji J, et al. (2016) Comparison of rubidium-82 myocardial blood flow quantification with coronary calcium score for evaluation of coronary artery stenosis. Nucl Med Commun. 
  5. Fraioli F, Kayani I, Smith LJ, Bomanji JB, et al. (2016) Positive (18)Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Predicts Preinvasive Endobronchial Lesion Progression to Invasive Cancer. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 
  6. Ciet P, Serra G ..., Fraioli F, Quattrucci S, et al. (2016). Assessment of CF lung disease using motion corrected PROPELLER MRI: a comparison with CT. Eur Radiol.
  7. Skoura E, Michopoulou S, Bomanji J, et al. (2016) The Impact of 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT Imaging on Management of Patients with Neuroendocrine Tumors: Experience from a National Referral Center in the United Kingdom. J Nucl Med. 
  8. Fallanca F, Kayani I, Bomanji J, et al. (2016) Diagnostic accuracy of FDG PET/CT for clinical evaluation at the end of treatment of HL and NHL: a comparison of the Deauville Criteria (DC) and the International Harmonization Project Criteria (IHPC). Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging.

Funding and Partnerships

The Institute of Nuclear Medicine has collaborated with many private and non-profit organisations. These include:

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Education & Training

  1. We are Positron Emission Tomography (PET) reference site for Siemens, GE Healthcare, Advanced Accelerator Applications / Bracco and TexRAD.
  2. We run Europe's only cardiac hybrid imaging course giving Level II accreditation from the Society of Cardiovascular CT.
  3. We are the only site in Europe able to train Rubidium PET to ARSAC recommendations.
  4. We also run the regional cardiac CT education, the "Pan London cardiac CT". We host the PET component of the International League against Epilepsy's Advanced Neuro Imaging course which is performed within the Department.
  5. We provide formal education to trainees at the University of Bologna for Prof. Fanti and to multiple sites in the Gulf through the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health and Oman Health Authority.
  6. We are only one of two UK sites that train Cardiology, Radiologists and Nuclear Medicine Physicians in Cardiac PET.
  7. Apart from our own three Registrars, we provide additional training for trainees from other UK Deaneries.

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Contact us

Nuclear Medicine Clinic

UCLH Nuclear Medicine Clinic Manager
Institute of Nuclear Medicine
5th Floor, Tower
University College Hospital
235 Euston Road
London, NW1 2BU

Academic Institute

Hansa Jadeja, Academic Administrator
Institute of Nuclear Medicine
5th Floor, Tower
University College Hospital
235 Euston Road
London, NW1 2BU

Nearest underground stations are Warren Street (Northern and Victoria lines) and Euston Square (Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines). Nearest mainline rail is Euston (500m) or Kings Cross / St. Pancras (1km).