Singleton Hospital

Singleton Hospital, part of NHS Wales’ Swansea Bay University Health Board, installed the UK’s first GE HealthCare StarGuide gamma camera in early 2022. StarGuide is a CZT ring detector gamma camera for SPECT/CT imaging, said to offer increased signal-to-background ratios, increased contrast-to-noise ratios, better lesion detectability and better lesion delineation. The acceptance testing of this […]

Singleton Hospital, Swansea, has installed a comprehensive Hermes Medical Solutions software facility as part of an extensive redevelopment of its nuclear medicine department. Head of nuclear medicine Professor Neil Hartman explained how Hermes Medical Solutions has supported his work over the years, and how the new Hermia software suite will help deliver molecular imaging diagnostics […]

Singleton Hospital in Swansea has worked with Oncology Systems Limited (OSL) in order to investigate the benefits of introducing ART-Plan AI into its radiotherapy planning workflow. Clinical scientist in the medical physics department Adam Selby explained: “With the anticipated wave of patients heading into the system due to a hold-back from COVID-19 we are looking […]

Singleton Hospital in Swansea has acquired a second Philips Big Bore RT scanner with improved 4DCT reconstruction times that help improve the imaging department’s clinical workflow. Radiographers will no longer need to wait until the end of the day to reconstruct a 4DCT scan. Linked to Philips’ Pinnacle3 RT planning system, the system facilitates the […]

Service team leader at Oncology Imaging Systems (OIS) Josh Imber has overseen his 100th installation of LAP laser positioning systems since working with the company. He started working with the provider of medical devices almost eight years ago in a technical and sales support role. During this time, Imber has been involved in installing new […]

Having recently installed an Elekta Versa HD linear accelerator, Singleton Hospital in Swansea is planning on using the C-RAD surface image guided radiation therapy (SIGRT system), supplied by Vertec Scientific, for patients receiving breast radiotherapy treatment when the machine goes live in spring. SIGRT is a technique that helps to deliver highly accurate radiotherapy treatments. […]

Radiotherapy teams from Singleton Hospital in Swansea and St James’s University Hospital in Leeds performed a fact-finding tour of the radiotherapy department at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesborough. Pictured are RT radiographer Julie Wood, RT physicist Dr Steve Weston, RT technical research radiographer Peter Enever and RT engineer Chris Forrest all of St James’s, […]

Established in 2006, the Swansea NHS Trust mobile DXA service scanned more than 1,000 patients in its first year. Since then the service has proved to be very popular, with over 18,000 patients scanned by the end of last year. The mobile service calling at Withybush Hospital, West Wales General Hospital and Singleton Hospital was […]