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THE REPUBLIC OF UNION OF MYANMAR

Dr. KYIN MYINTM.B.,B.S. M.Sc.(Nuclear Medicine)

Professor / HeadDepartment 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 MillionsCapital: NaypyitawReligion: Majority Buddhist, but free

GOLDEN SHWE DAGON PAGODA, YANGON

REPUBLIC OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF UNION OF MYANMARMYANMAR((NUCLEAR MEDICINE SERVICES)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

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 Yangon General Hospital (Dual head) 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 slicesPHILIPS PET-CT 16 slices& 18 MeV iba CYCLOTRON& 18 MeV iba CYCLOTRON

Department of Nuclear Medicine, YGH