Recently, we had the privilege of hearing from three of the hospitals experts about how a new PET-CT makes a difference to patients. We heard from:
- Sarah Cade, Head of Medical Physics & Bioengineering
- Stewart Redman, Consultant Radiologist
- Rob Leigh, Head of Nuclear Medicine.
They shared some incredibly complex information in wonderfully simple terms —explaining how PET‑CT scanning works and the difference it makes to cancer patients. Using real-life (anonymous) patient examples, they illustrated how PET‑CT scans provide more accurate staging at diagnosis, inform the treatment pathway, help detect recurrence, show whether treatment is working or appropriate, and enable more targeted radiotherapy.
Explaining, for example, why and how the glucose radioactive injection given before a PET-CT scan works with a resting body to highlight areas of cancerous cells in the body and show if they have spread from the primary site to multiple areas of a patients body. A key factor in determining a patients treatment pathway.
They also covered why the combination of the new PET-CT new technology and enhanced software is so important as it will bring benefits to the RUH Bath that include:
- Improved image quality
- Shorter scan times
- Lower radiation doses
- New applications.
To learn more about what we are coming together to achieve, watch the PET-CT Lecture below and you can support our new PET-CT Scanner campaign by clicking here:
