SPECT V/Q training day at City Hospital
At City Hospital, Birmingham are attendees at the SPECT V/Q Kr81m training day.
Birmingham City Hospital’s physics and nuclear medicine department held a national SPECT V/Q training day with a focus on how to setup, process and report Tc99m / Kr81m SPECT V/Q studies. Lectures covered patient preparation, acquisition routines, processing issues, generic reporting, legislation and radiation dose. Delegates were invited to take part in parallel sessions of practical demonstrations on setting up patients on the camera and also an interactive reporting session.
With Kr81m as the ventilation agent, a SPECT V/Q study is completed with one dual energy acquisition in less than 15 minutes, boosting patient throughput and reporting time. An added advantage of the dual energy scan technique is that both the perfusion and ventilation SPECT slices are perfectly aligned, making the processing and reporting of SPECT V/Q studies simple, accurate and efficient.
See this report on page 22 of the December 2013 issue of RAD Magazine.
