The Hamamatsu/Queen’s PET (Positron Emission Tomography) Imaging Center LLC is a joint venture between Hamamatsu Photonics of Japan (a leading manufacturer of high end electronic components and medical equipment) and the Queen’s Medical Center (Hawaii’s largest healthcare provider). Started in 1997, the Center was created to build, operate, manage, and maintain a state of the art PET imaging center located at the Queen’s Medical Center.

The Hamamatsu/Queen’s PET Imaging Center is the only hospital based PET facility in the State of Hawaii. The PET Center includes 4 rooms; a control room for monitoring, scheduling, and support services, a patient waiting room where IV is administered, a room where the PET scans are performed, and a 4th room which can house a second PET scanner for future expansion.

Queen’s has the largest and most active nuclear medicine department in Hawaii combining both clinical nuclear medicine and research interests. So not only are you being treated by the best, most comprehensive technology in the world today, but also in the largest, most respected acute hospital in the Pacific.

The Liholiho Cyclotron Building which covers 4,032 square feet, is one of the crown jewels on the QMC campus. The Liholiho Cyclotron Building is a dedicated, high tech laboratory that manufactures the radioisotope tracers which are used in the PET scans. The entire manufacturing process resides in this all encompassing facility, from producing the radioisotopes, to maintaining quality control. It is the only medical cyclotron for producing positron emitting compounds in the State of Hawaii. Having this manufacturing capability next door to the PET Imaging Center ensures that the Hamamatsu/Queen’s PET Imaging Center can systematically control every aspect of the PET process.

Our Purpose/Mission

We believe that all people will be cared for with dignity and respect, in an environment which is sensitive to each person’s own beliefs, values, and culture. Each team member, patient, family is committed to a collaborative approach in providing an environment that will promote healing of mind, body, and spirit. Our philosophy is extended in a place of harmony, as guided by the vision and ideals of our founders.

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