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