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By Express News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Disease diagnosis is set to get an impetus at the Government Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram as it will soon have a single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) scan. A nuclear imaging test, the SPECT scan uses a radioactive substance and a special camera to create 3-D pictures and helps a doctor to analyze the function of the internal organs of a patient. In the state budget 2020-21 an amount of `8 crore was allocated for setting up SPECT scan at the GMCH. Health Minister K K Shailaja said that SPECT scan will come up at the Nuclear Medicine Department of the GMCH. Some of the scans that could be carried out through the SPECT scan include thyroid scan, parathyroid scan, nuclear cardiac scan, kidney scan, bone scan, brain scan, hepatobiliary and gastro internal scan..