NUCLEAR MEDICINE SERVICES in THE REPUBLIC OF UNION OF MYANMAR Dr. KYIN MYINT M.B.,B.S. M.Sc.(Nuclear Medicine) Professor / Head Department of Nuclear Medicine Yangon General Hospital
Prof. Kyin Myint
THE REPUBLIC OF UNION OF MYANMAR Area:676,552 sq km(261,218 sq miles) Population: About 60 Millions Capital: Naypyitaw Religion: Majority Buddhist, but free
GOLDEN SHWE DAGON PAGODA, YANGON
REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR (NUCLEAR MEDICINE SERVICES) NAYPYI TAW
MAN-POWER 5 Nuclear Medicine centers throughout the country 7 Nuclear Medicine physicians, including Military physicians 2 physicists, 5 in-vivo technicians & 4 in-vitro technologists 6 residents undertaking M.Med.Sc. (Nuclear Medicine) two years program with University of Medicine 1, Yangon & another 6 will join in 2015.
Available resources SPECT Gamma camera SPECT-CT Gamma camera Yangon General Hospital (Dual head) Mandalay General Hospital (Single head) Naypyitaw 1000 bedded General Hospital (Dual head) Military 1000 bedded hospital, Naypyitaw (Dual head) SPECT-CT Gamma camera Mandalay General Hospital (Dual head) Naypyitaw General Hospital (Dual head) RIA Laboratories (Equipped with Perkin Elmer gamma counters) Yangon General Hospital Mandalay General Hospital Naypyitaw General Hospital
SPECT-CT (YGH)
PET-CT & CYCLOTRON PHILIPS Time-of-Flight PET-CT will be installed in YGH in December 2014. 18 MeV IBA Cyclotron will be installed at the same site in February 2015. Expected date to run PET-CT study in June 2015. One SPECT-CT is installing in another Government hospital in YANGON
PHILIPS PET-CT 16 slices & 18 MeV iba CYCLOTRON
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