Dr. Pratyusha Bikkina

Qualification: DNB ( NUCLEAR MEDICINE), MNAMS

Areas of Specialization:

Diagnostic Nuclear medicine – Gamma camera, SPECT-CT and PET-CT
Therapeutic Nuclear medicine – I-131, Lu-177, Sm-153, Ac-225

Dr. Pratyusha Bikkina completed her MBBS MBBS from NTR University of Health Sciences, Andhra Pradesh. Post-graduation in Nuclear Medicine from Apollo Health City, Hyderabad, under National Board of Examinations in 2013. She has been working in BIACH since 2015. Trained and experienced in different diagnostic and therapeutic Nuclear medicine procedures with different tracers(99mTc, I-131, F-18, Ga68, Lu177, Sm153, Ac-225) Trained in handling high work flow with the maximum number of scans and therapies. Been working on different new tracers for imaging and therapy.

 

Publications:

1. Abnormal focal 18F-FDG tracer uptake in the lung with no corresponding CT abnormality: a case report Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine(IJNM), Volume 32, Issue 4, Oct-Dec 2017

2. Role of PET-CT in a case of suspected Paraneoplastic Inflammatory Polymyositis with Urinary bladder Tumour: a case report Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine(IJNM), Volume 33, Issue 1, Jan-March 2018

3. Positron emission tomography-computed tomography in Subcutaneous panniculitis-like T cell lymphoma: a case report World Journal of Nuclear Medicine(WJNM), Volume 18, Issue 4, Oct-Dec 2019