Radiotherapy PACS provides scope for growth

Clinical scientist Adrian Lonsdale, radiotherapy physicist Stephen Mason and IT specialist for radiotherapy physics Fiona Laird.

Dundee Cancer Centre has replaced its Dicom archive with a radiotherapy PACS from Pukka-j.  Capable of handling the complexities of oncology imaging, the systems facilitates centralised storage of radiotherapy and radiology imaging.

Ninewells Hospital provides a range of services for patients with the more common cancers and specialist services for less common cancers.   Radiotherapy physicist Stephen Mason said: “As the demands for data flow in radiotherapy increased, the ideal solution for the centre was a single integrated system that would allow users to send and retrieve radiotherapy data sets from a wide array of applications.  The system needed to have a user friendly interface to allow review of images across the hospital site.

“A relatively large storage capacity was required with flexibility for future expansion.  There was a requirement to anonymise data for trials and training.  The solution offered by Pukka-j met all our current needs and gave us lots of scope for service improvement.”

See the full report on page 25 of the September 2014 issue of RAD Magazine.