SPECT/CT

The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and GE HealthCare have formed a seven-year Care Alliance to build advanced capabilities across URMC’s footprint in upstate New York. This includes a centre of excellence in its imaging sciences department, the addition of diagnostic tracer production for molecular imaging applications and the standardisation of patient monitoring across […]

A major step forward for diagnostic imaging in Somerset has been reached with the reopening of the nuclear medicine department at Musgrove Park Hospital, following a significant refurbishment and the installation of a new state-of-the-art SPECT/CT scanner. Delivered by Ergéa UK in partnership with Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, the redevelopment includes a purpose-built facility with […]

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH), in partnership with Ergéa UK, has completed a major upgrade to diagnostic imaging services at John Radcliffe Hospital, marking a significant milestone in OUH’s long-term programme to modernise radiology equipment, enhance patient care, and improve clinical outcomes. Delivered through a managed equipment service (MES) agreement with Ergéa UK, […]

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 […]