Bradford’s SPECT/CT aids thyroid scanning
With Philips modality sales specialist advanced molecular imaging Mohammed Arshad looking through the gantry bore are medical physicist Mike Avison, clinical physics section head Caroline Short, consultant radiologist Dr Jon Martin, medical physics clinical services manager Mike Page, clinical technologist Deborah Cunningham, pharmacy technician Beverley Brown, clinical technologists Cathy Haran, Rebecca Murray and Ana Moura, and nuclear medicine section head Ian Anderson.
The nuclear medicine department at Bradford Royal Infirmary has replaced an aged gamma camera with a Philips BrightView XCT SPECT/CT system. Medical physics clinical services manager Mike Page said: “The department now has the ability to offer additional SPECT/CT scans, giving greater flexibility in accommodating patient workload. The increase in CT image quality has contributed to a significant improvement in our diagnostic capability.”
See the full report on page 16 of the April 2014 issue of RAD Magazine.
