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Gallium scan

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Overview

A Gallium scan is a nuclear medicine test used to detect certain cancers and infections.

How Boston Children's Hospital approaches Gallium scans

Our Division of Nuclear Medicine is committed to providing families with a safe, comfortable and child-friendly atmosphere with:

  • specialized nuclear medicine physicians with expertise in interpreting Gallium scans in children of all ages
  • certified nuclear medicine technologists with years of experience imaging children and teens
  • Child Life specialists to help families prior to and during exams
  • equipment designed adapted for pediatric use, which means age-appropriate care for children
  • protocols that keep radiation exposure as low as reasonably achievablewhile assuring high image quality

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