Dr. Amol Madan Takalkar M.D.
Nuclear Medicine Specialist | In Vivo & In Vitro Nuclear Medicine
1505 Kings Hwy Pet Imaging Center, Shreveport LA, 71103About
Dr. Amol Takalkar practices Nuclear Medicine in Shreveport, LA. Dr. Takalkar uses procedures and treatments that apply molecular imaging and molecular therapy. Nuclear Medicine Physicians are trained and certified to provide such procedures as skeletal imaging, glucose metabolic imaging, brain perfusion, blood pool imaging, and thyroid imaging, among many others.
Education and Training
Byramjee Jeejeebhoy MD
B.J. Medical College
Padmashree Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College 1999
BYRAMJEE JEEJEEBHOY MEDICAL COLLEGE (BJ MED COLL) 1997
Board Certification
Nuclear MedicineAmerican Board of Nuclear MedicineABNM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Living with tuberculosis: the myths and the stigma from the Indian perspective.
- Costosternal chondrodynia simulating recurrent breast cancer unveiled by FDG PET.
- Incidental detection of unsuspected pulmonary embolism on oncologic FDG PET/CT imaging.
- Relative Merits of Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography and PET Perfusion Imaging: A Cardiologist's View.
- Cardiac PET Imaging.
- FDG PET Imaging of Extremities in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
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