Dr. David L Bushnell MD
Nuclear Medicine Specialist
200 Hawkins Dr Iowa City IA, 52242Rating
5/5
About
Dr. David Bushnell practices Nuclear Medicine in Iowa City, IA. Dr. Bushnell 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
University of Illinois College of Medicine 1979
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- PET, CT, and MRI with Combidex for mediastinal staging in non-small cell lung carcinoma.
- Enhanced uptake of 99Tcm-MDP in skeletal metastases from prostate cancer following initiation of hormone treatment: potential for increasing delivery of therapeutic agents.
- A quest for the relief of atherosclerosis: potential role of intrapulmonary heparin--a hypothesis.
- Heparin as a therapy for atherosclerosis: preliminary observations on the intrapulmonary administration of low-dose heparin in the morning versus evening gauged by its effect on blood variables.
- Evaluation of cerebral perfusion reserve using 5% CO2 and SPECT neuroperfusion imaging.
- Utility of late N-isopropyl-p-(iodine-123)-iodoamphetamine brain distribution in predicting outcome following cerebral infarction.
- Circadian distribution of proteins in urine from healthy young men.
- Standard imaging techniques for neuroendocrine tumors.
- Evaluation of pulmonary perfusion in lung regions showing isolated xenon-133 ventilation washout defects.
- Technetium pertechnetate esophageal imaging for detection of Barrett's esophagus.
- Feasibility and advantage of adding (131)I-MIBG to (90)Y-DOTATOC for treatment of
- Localization of Unknown Primary Site with Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT in Patients with Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumor.
- Medical imaging of the parathyroid glands.
- Visualization of metastatic liver disease on technetium-99m bone scintigraphy.
- Rotation, translation, and trajectory in diving.
Treatments
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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