SPECT/CT

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 […]

Royal Brompton Hospital has become London’s first hospital to install a Spectrum Dynamics Veriton-CT whole-body scanner, featuring 360° CZT ring SPECT technology. The scanner is said to deliver superior sensitivity and energy resolution compared to traditional gamma cameras. “As one of the UK’s largest heart and lung centres, in partnership with Harefield Hospital, this technology […]

Spectrum Dynamic’s digital SPECT scanners provide a foundation for next generation of nuclear medicine, from quantitative treatment monitoring in theragnostics to advanced nuclear cardiology and routine 3D/4D imaging. Spectrum launched the first digital cardiac SPECT system, the D-SPECT in 2007. “It is the world’s first digital cardiac SPECT system based on Broadview Technology, swivelling CZT digital […]

Nuffield Health’s Parkside and Cancer Centre London hospitals in Wimbledon are seeing patients using two innovative CT scanners that support people with specialist health conditions through advanced technology. The GE HealthCare Revolution Apex Elite CT scanner at Nuffield Health Parkside Hospital can capture an entire image of the heart in one heartbeat, meaning CT scans […]

Serac Healthcare and the Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford have presented further data from the DETECT (Detecting endometriosis expressed integrins using technetium-99m) imaging study, indicating that 99mTcmaraciclatide is capable of imaging superficial peritoneal endometriosis, the earliest stage of the disease. The data was presented in a poster by […]

Hermia molecular imaging software from Hermes Medical Solutions is designed to give users the freedom to configure their nuclear medicine departments in the way they want. Hermia is said to be the only truly camera brand-independent, comprehensive, vendor-neutral solution for data management, processing and reporting of nuclear medicine, SPECT/CT, and PETCT. UK-based experts are on […]

A scanner equipped with a contrast injector and the latest technology from GE HealthCare has been delivered and installed at St Helier Nuclear Medicine Imaging Centre, part of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. This is a significant investment in healthcare in south-west London and is said to be the first NM/CT 870 […]

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB), part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, is the first in the world to implement a Symbia Pro.specta SPECT/CT from Siemens Healthineers. Equipped with specialised clinical tools, low dose imaging and intuitive workflow, the Symbia Pro.specta is helping to expand services in the nuclear medicine department, including cardiology, neurology, […]