Installing a hybrid PET•CT scanner has enabled Charing Cross Hospital in London to improve its productivity in cancer imaging by a factor of three.

The NHS hospital has used a Biograph 64 TruePoint PET•CT from Siemens Healthcare since 2008. The scanner combines PET and CT functions to provide detailed images, showing the stages of tumour development in a variety of cancers.

Using the Biograph 64, the hospital has radically increased its productivity in cancer imaging. The system offers 33% greater axial coverage of the PET field of view, which can double the clinical performance. The system also improves lesion detection, increasing diagnostic confidence and thus speeding up clinical decisions.

"The productivity of medical imaging equipment is an important factor to consider in the decision-making process, and hybrid systems are ideally equipped to deliver in this area," said Dr. Kuldip Nijran, Consultant Physicist, Nuclear Medicine at Charing Cross Hospital. "We are now scanning on average three times as many patients per day, which is a huge increase."

"Productivity is high on the NHS agenda as Trusts look to gain maximum efficiency and utilisation from capital investment," said Lawrence Foulsham, Product Manager for Molecular Imaging and Oncology at Siemens Healthcare. "The PET•CT at Charing Cross Hospital has done just this, unlocking cancer management performance to save time, space and costs now and over the long term."

 
Biograph 64 TruePoint PET•CT