Royal Cornwall celebrates birthday with CT opening

Radiography service lead Jackie Knox (in the scanner), CT team lead Gemima Savage, CT radiographer Duncan Mitchell, Toshiba Medical Systems account manager Megan Newberry and CT clinical development specialist Mark Condron, CT radiographer Tara Maher and imaging lead Emma Spouse.

Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro held an opening ceremony for an Aquilion One Vision Edition CT scanner that coincided with the hospital’s 50th birthday, highlighting the technological changes since the hospital opened, such as sub 1mSV cardiac imaging.

Imaging lead Emma Spouse says: “Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust was impressed with the quality of the installation project of the Toshiba Aquilion CT scanner.  This was a difficult project, requiring operational service continuity in the shared back-to-back control room, with equipment delivery into the department down a steep bank.  Toshiba kept to time within a very tight project schedule, which was planned in meticulous detail.

“The applications training was of a high standard and the radiographic CT team was well supported through the challenges of different CT equipment and the associated software platform variations.  Despite being based in the south-west, our local Toshiba engineer has been providing almost in-house support.”

See the full report on page 18 of the May 2017 issue of RAD Magazine.