Skylight for a Small Nuclear Medicine Department Mr Anil Vara Queen 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