Pozitron Medical Budapest

Pozitron Medical Diagnosztika Központ (formerly Pozitron-Diagnosztika Központ, rebranded 2024) operates from a purpose-built four-storey diagnostic centre at Hunyadi János út 9-11 in Budapest's XI district. The institution has performed over 110,000 PET/CT examinations since its founding around 2004, establishing it as one of Hungary's most experienced nuclear medicine and advanced imaging facilities. The centre's defining technical distinction is its on-site particle accelerator (cyclotron), which produces the PET radiopharmaceuticals used in house. This includes 18F-FDG for whole-body oncology PET/CT and 18F-JK-PSMA-7 for prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT — a tracer Pozitron Medical is the only private-pay provider of in Hungary. Manufacturing its own tracers eliminates the time constraints and supply dependencies that constrain other PET/CT centres and allows the facility to perform studies on demand throughout the working day. Cardiac imaging is delivered via the Siemens Somatom Drive Dual Source CT (2×128 slices, two independent X-ray sources) — described on site as one of Hungary's most modern scanners. The Dual Source configuration is particularly valuable for cardiac CT: the two rotating tube-detector pairs halve the acquisition time needed to complete a cardiac cycle, yielding sharper coronary images at higher heart rates without the beta-blocker premedication that single-source scanners often require. The Cardio-CT service provides full coronary CT angiography with calcium scoring for 170,000 HUF (approximately €425). Self-pay patients can book online via the MedicAll platform without a physician referral. NEAK (Hungarian public health fund) financing is available for CT, MRI, and certain PET/CT studies under referral. Health savings account (egészségpénztár) financing is accepted with a 20% income tax benefit on the procedure cost. Specialist clinics on-site include cardiology, diabetology, endocrinology, vascular surgery, gastroenterology, proctology, and rheumatology. Imaging modalities extend across CT, MRI, ultrasound, mammography, and full laboratory diagnostics. The centre does not accept patients under 18.