Nuffield gets unique CT scanner
The SPECT CT scanner at Nuffield’s Cancer Centre London, with its radiography team and Kate Farrow, the hospital’s health systems director on the right
Patients with specialist health conditions are being scanned faster and more safely with two new innovative CT scanners at Nuffield Health’s Parkside Wimbledon and Cancer Centre London hospitals.
The Revolution Apex Elite CT scanner at Parkside Hospital can capture an entire image of the heart within just one heartbeat, meaning CT scans are safer for people with serious cardiac conditions and diagnosis is likely to be faster.
It is the first installed at an independent hospital in the UK and only the second installed in England.
At Cancer Centre London, the SPECT CT scanner delivers a scan using a lower radiation dose, enabling people undergoing cancer care or who have an underlying serious health condition to be diagnosed faster and more safely.
It also includes a new generation Gamma Camera, which increases the detail of a scan.
Kate Farrow, health systems director at the hospitals, said: ‘Both CT scanners offer flexibility to clinicians and they enable us to treat and care for more patients from local communities, which demonstrates our purpose of building a healthier nation.’