Making headway: ‘Nuclear medicine has flourished’

KARACHI: According to Dr Maseehuz Zaman, the head of the nuclear medicine section of the radiology department at Aga Khan University Hospital, nuclear medicine has flourished as a field in Pakistan since the early 2000s and is in dire need of adequate number of trained practitioners. Sharing details with the media about the gadgets procured by the hospital to boost its nuclear medicine department, he said the country needed both high quality images and interpretation and review of the images by qualified nuclear medicine physicians. “Time is of essence while detecting a disease or determining the course of its management,” said Dr Zaman. In reply to a question, he said that the PET-CT scanner is unique as it presents a real-time image of changes occurring in the body and helps identify abnormal or unusual activity that a CT scan or MRI would miss.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 14^th,  2015.