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Department of Nuclear Medicine - University Hospital Halle (Saale)

University Hospital Halle (Saale)

Halle, Germany
Department id # 289942
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Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Heinzel
Department of Nuclear Medicine
Specialized in: nuclear medicine

About the Department of Nuclear Medicine at University Hospital Halle (Saale)

The Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University Hospital Halle (Saale) offers the full range of services in this ​​medical field. It carries out all common and proven types of scintigraphic diagnostics and treatment. A unique offer of the department is SPECT-CT and PET-CT using various tracers and modern targeted radiopharmaceuticals. The department is headed by Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Heinzel.

The department has an in-house Section of Radiochemistry, in which all the necessary radiopharmaceuticals for the diagnostics and therapy are synthesized. Thus, the department has all the resources to provide excellent medical service.

The diagnostic options of the department include:

  • Combined positron emission tomography with computed tomography (PET-CT)
  • Gastrointestinal scintigraphy to find the source of bleeding, detect Meckel's diverticulum
  • Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy
  • Brain scintigraphy (neuro-SPECT, DaTSCAN ™ and IBZM-SPECT)
  • Bone scintigraphy
  • Functional liver scintigraphy
  • Scintigraphy using anti-granulocyte antibodies and labeled white blood cells
  • Cerebrospinal fluid scintigraphy
  • Ventilation and perfusion lung scintigraphy
  • Gastric emptying scintigraphy
  • Parathyroid scintigraphy
  • Renal function scintigraphy and static kidney scintigraphy
  • Thyroid diagnostics
    • Thyroid scintigraphy
    • MIBI thyroid scintigraphy
    • Imaging-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy
  • Sentinel lymph node marking
  • Esophageal scintigraphy
  • 123I-mIBG or 111In-octreotide tumor scintigraphy (Octreoscan)
  • Radioimmunological analysis within the framework of the in-house laboratory
  • Other diagnostic services

The therapeutic options of the department include:

  • Radioiodine therapy
    • Benign thyroid diseases
      • Hyperthyroidism due to hormonally active autonomous thyroid nodules (unifocal, multifocal autonomy)
      • Hyperthyroidism due to Graves' disease
      • Enlarged thyroid gland (goiter)
    • Malignant thyroid diseases
      • Differentiated thyroid cancer (follicular and papillary cancer)
      • Other types of recurrent thyroid cancer
  • Radiosynoviorthesis
    • Rheumatoid arthritis
    • Arthrosis of the large joints
    • Conditions after synovectomy
    • Seronegative spondyloarthropathy
    • Crystal arthropathy
    • Villonodular synovitis
    • Arthropathy in hemophilia
  • Selective internal radiotherapy for liver tumors
  • Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy for patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors
  • PSMA therapy for patients with metastatic prostate cancer
  • Other therapeutic methods

Curriculum vitae

Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Heinzel has been the Head Physician of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University Hospital Halle (Saale) since October 1, 2022. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior Physician in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University Hospital RWTH Aachen.

Prof. Heinzel has been actively involved in teaching activities for many years and received his Master of Medical Education (MME) in 2020. Since 2019, he has also been a Member of the Continuing Education Committee of the German Society of Nuclear Medicine (DGN). In 2020, he was appointed as an Expert at the Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Proficiency (IMPP).

Prof. Alexander Heinzel graduated from the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf and the University of Nantes (France). In 2011, he underwent habilitation at Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf. Since 2020, Dr. med. Heinzel has held the position of Extraordinary Professor for Nuclear Medicine at the RWTH Aachen University.

Фото врача: (c) Universitätsklinikum Halle (Saale)