Nuffield Health Bournemouth develops cardiac centre with CT scanner

Lead CT radiographer Kelly Williams, Toshiba account executive CT/XR/MR Mark Foxall, radiographer Alexandra Marques, hospital director David McNair, radiographer Leila Solomans, imaging services manager Marie Helps and Toshiba Medical Systems UK south manager Simon Weeden.

As part of the development of a private cardiac centre of excellence in a large conurbation with an extensive aged demographic, Nuffield Health Bournemouth Hospital has chosen Toshiba’s Aquilion One Vision Edition and Vitrea advanced reporting system.

Since installation, doses for general work including chest/abdominal and pelvis scanning have dropped by around 75 per cent.  Nuffield Bournemouth is also establishing a new cardiac CT service.

Imaging services manager Marie Helps said: “We have named the new scanner Koji, Japanese for second shining son, as this our second Toshiba system and it outshines the first one.  The new scanner with the Vitrea advanced reporting system was chosen as an integral part of a larger project to establish a cardiac centre of excellence in this area.  The new system has reduced our patient dose to very low levels, while delivering improved image quality and enabling the very highest level of diagnostic CT across the board.”

See the full report on page 10 of the January 2016 issue of RAD Magazine.