The Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, part of Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, has introduced three new scanning machines which combine two types of scans in one, allowing clinicians to see “both the body’s internal structure and how its organs are functioning in remarkable detail”.
The systems by Siemens, are said to boost precision in diagnostics, helping with the accurate localisation of abnormal tissue, and in the detection of lesions for oncology, cardiology, and neurology.
Joseph O’Brien, consultant physicist and head of nuclear medicine at Sandwell and West Birmingham, spoke of the trust’s excitement at launching the new technology, adding that patients can now expect “quicker, more accurate diagnoses for serious conditions, reduced radiation exposure during medical scans, a more comfortable scanning experience, and faster turnaround of test results”.
source: HTN
Date: 6 January