MÁLAGA, 30 Dec. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Virgen de la Victoria university hospital complex in Málaga, through its Nuclear Medicine service, has just put into operation a new SPECT/CT equipment that allows for increased quality and diagnostic accuracy in studies related to cancer, the heart and the brain.
In this sense, the new equipment from which the first patients are already benefiting also allows a reduction in the radiation dose necessary to perform the tests, as well as a reduction in exploration time for the comfort of the patient and a qualitative leap in health care, the Board has indicated in a statement.
Likewise, the installation of this new gamma camera is part of the High Technology Equipment Investment Plan (INVEAT) that is being carried out in Andalusia to modernize and update this type of high-precision equipment, financed by the European Union, through of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism-NextGeneration EU, financial instrument for investment C18.I1 Investment plan in high-tech equipment for the SNS, of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of the Government of Spain.
For her part, the head of the Nuclear Medicine section of the Virgen de la Victoria university hospital complex, Salomé Sanz, explains that “it is a SPECT/CT gamma camera that improves the detection and characterization of lesions, increasing accuracy and precision in the diagnosis”.
This is the first Nuclear Medicine service in Andalusia in which this new equipment has been put into operation”. better quality with lower radiation dose”, added Sanz.
The Nuclear Medicine service of the Virgen de la Victoria Clinical Hospital in Malaga treats more than 7,500 patients each year. The most frequent types of examinations are oncological diagnostic studies, cardiology, neurology, endocrinology, pulmonology, surgery, internal medicine, gynecology, and traumatology.
Finally, they have highlighted that, for the installation of the new equipment, the reorganization of agendas has been carried out to guarantee the care activity of the unit, which consists of two teams. Likewise, and these days, the replacement of the second gamma camera will be carried out for the installation of other advanced technology equipment similar to the one that has just started operating.
