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Had Enough… Poor uniformity Not very ‘Patient friendly’ No SPECT Not able to do medium or high energy work Difficult to train staff and use machine
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Skylight for a Small Nuclear Medicine
Department
Mr Anil VaraQueen Mary’s Hospital
London
Before…
• Scintronix single head camera
• 23 years of age• Total throughput
1500 per year
Had Enough…
• Poor uniformity• Not very ‘Patient friendly’• No SPECT• Not able to do medium or high energy
work• Difficult to train staff and use machine
Last hope..
• Approach Trust?– Turned down
• BNMS Audit– Trust supported purchase of new camera
Skylight Camera
• Smaller Gantry height
• 4 set collimators• Pegasys
workstation (SunBlade)
Why Skylight??
• FLEXIBLE• Adapts to a variety of NM procedures• Staff training• New protocols• Reliability on the system
Flexibility
• Faster camera set-ups– PPM– Single or Double?– Difficult patients
• Jetstream– Easy manual set-ups– Concurrent imaging
New NM Techniques
• Supply on demand– Octreotide– MIBG– Subtraction MIBI
• Modify and create new protocols
Staff training
• Encourage new staff– Nuclear Medicine does exists– Exiting
• Staff rotation– Fast and easy
New processing protocols
• Protocol tool– Create and write programs
• Support and troubleshooting– Friendly Philips team!!!
What can Philips provide for us in the future?
• New software upgrades• Continuing support for new imaging
techniques• Support through users group
Our Future??
• Move to a new hospital
• Further work
• Expansion