NCCC’s radiotherapy MRI scanner reaches 10,000th patient milestone
Senior radiographer Steve Harris, consultant clinical scientist Dr Hazel McCallum, senior radiographers Tim Dowling and Abbie Clough, superintendent radiographer Jill Mckenna and senior radiographer Ruth Nisbet.
The Northern Centre for Cancer Care has celebrated its 10,000th MRI patient scan. It claims to have been the first centre in the UK to routinely use MRI to improve the planning of radiotherapy treatments.
The Siemens Magnetom Espree 1.5T MRI opened in December 2009 in a custom-built room dedicated to imaging for radiotherapy patients in the north-east. Consultant clinical scientist Dr Hazel McCallum explained: “Our MRI scanner gives us superb soft tissue definition in patient images that we can then fuse with CT images. This gives the oncologists a better tool for identifying the extent of disease as well as sensitive organs in the patient.”
Read the full report on page 32 of the October 2018 issue of RAD Magazine.
