Ludwig Maximilian University Hospital
Munich, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Peter Bartenstein
Department of Nuclear Medicine
Department of Nuclear Medicine at Ludwig-Maximilian University Hospital is the largest medical facility for nuclear medicine in Germany. The department uses nuclear medicine diagnostics and therapeutics for early detection of tumors, neurological and cardiac diseases.
The department has a preclinical research team that consists of nuclear physicians, physicists, radiochemists, and more specialists. The team conducts researches on the new radiopharmaceuticals in diagnosis and therapy before medical application.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. med. Peter Bartenstein, the department treats more than 1,000 inpatients every year. Advanced equipment is being used by highly experienced specialized doctors and workers of the nursing staff to guarantee the best possible advanced treatment nuclear medicine can offer.
Department of Nuclear Medicine at Ludwig-Maximilian University Hospital is specialized in:
• Scintigraphy for the detection of the source of hemorrhage
• Scintigraphy of the brain
• Scintigraphy of testes
• Scintigraphy of bone marrow
• Scintigraphy of the liver
• Treatment of benign and malignant thyroid tumors using radiotherapy
• Treatment of malignant prostate tumors using radiotherapy
• Treatment of neuroendocrine tumors using radiotherapy
• Treatment of skeletal metastases
• Selective internal radiation therapy
• MIBG therapy
Education and Professional Career
- 1978 - 1984 Medical School, Universities of Bochum and Bonn.
- 1981 - 1984 Research work in the Department of Hematology and Oncology, University of Bonn.
- 1984 - 1985 Clinical Internship in the Departments of Radiology, Internal Medicine and Surgery at the District Hospital Waldbröl.
- 1985 State Medical Examination, graded "very good" (A+).
- 1985 - 1986 Military service as a Medical Officer in Andernach.
- 1985 Dr. med., University of Bonn, graded "very good" (magna cum laude).
- 1986 - 1990 Assistant Physician in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Muenster.
- 1990 Professional Board Certification in Nuclear Medicine.
- 1990 - 1991 Research Fellowship (German Research Foundation) in the PET-Group of the Medical Research Council Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital in London.
- 1991 - 1994 Senior Physician in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Muenster.
- 1994 Habilitation.
- 1994 - 1999 Senior Physician in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Technical University of Munich, and Head of the Group on Neuroimaging.
- 1999 - 2006 Chairman of the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
- 2002 - 2006 Head of the University Neuroscience Center.
- Since 2006, Chief Physician of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University Hospital of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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