Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Berlin, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Stefan Dresel
Department of Nuclear Medicine
Department of Nuclear Medicine at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch offers cutting-edge radioactive diagnostics and therapeutics for the management of various diseases. The main therapeutic application where nuclear medicine showed great success is in the field of thyroid diseases. The high standard medical care offered by the department is delivered by qualified and experienced medical staff who performs scintigraphy and radioiodine therapy, which has a 99% success rate, for thyroid pathologies.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Med. Stefan Dresel, the department treats over 1,080 inpatients every year, over 800 of which are thyroid patients. For other diseases, the full range of diagnostics is offered such as scintigraphy of the heart, lung, kidneys, brain, and lymph nodes. The facility also offers positron emission tomography (PET) which can detect many forms of cancer, such as lung cancer, lymphomas, and colon tumors. It also has the ability to diagnose certain neurological disorders, such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease.
The Department of Nuclear Medicine at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Goiter
- Thyroid cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Lymphomas
- Lung cancer
- Kidney cancer
Education
- 1984 - 1991 Study of Human Medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
- 1993 Doctorate.
Professional Career
- 1992 - 1994 Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
- 1994 - 1995 Research Fellow, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Campus Grosshadern.
- 1995 Research Fellow, Institute for Diagnostic Radiology and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University Hospital of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
- 1996 Senior Physician, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Campus Innenstadt.
- 1996 Board certification in Nuclear Medicine.
- 1996 - 1998 Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
- 1998 - 2004 Senior Physician, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Campus Innenstadt.
- 201 Habilitation and Venia legendi in Nuclear Medicine.
- Since 2004 Chief Physician of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch, as well as Section Head at the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the Helios Hospital Robert-Roessle, Berlin.
- Since 2007 Extraordinary Professor of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
- Since 2008 Head of the Specialized Group on Radiology, Radiation Therapy, and Nuclear Medicine.
Clinical Focuses
- Diagnostics and therapy of benign and malignant thyroid diseases.
- PET-CT diagnostics using F-18 FDG, Ga-68 PSMA, and Ga-68 Dotatoc.
- Radioreceptor therapy for neuroendocrine tumors using Lu-177 Dotatoc.
- Treatment of metastatic prostate cancer using Lu-177 PSMA.
- Treatment of liver tumors and liver metastasis using selective internal radiation therapy.
Department of Nuclear Medicine
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