2024-02-02 14:50:29
He Our Lady of Candelaria University Hospitalin Tenerife, has expanded the service teams nuclear medicine with a gamma camera and a PET-TCas reported this Friday by the Ministry of Health.
With this acquisition, which has involved an investment of more than three million euros, professionals will be able to carry out studies with a higher diagnostic quality of tissues or organs, in addition to knowing how their metabolic activity works.
The results obtained are thus improved, also reducing the radiation dose administered to the patient, details Health in a statement.
The implementation of this new equipment gives a qualitative leap to its pathology studies, especially those carried out in services such as Digestive, Cardiology, Pulmonology or Endocrinology, among others.
The gamma camera is an image capture device that uses gamma radiation, which is injected into the patient using radiopharmaceuticals to subsequently obtain a two-dimensional image of the organ or tissue to be observed.
In the resulting image, called a scintigraphy, you can see the tissue or organ to be analyzed in two dimensions, as well as its functioning.
In this way, the team carries out the studies more quickly, thus reducing the radiation dose to patients.
Likewise, it allows optimization of the treatments given to patients, with a segmentation of the affected area and a semi-automatic calculation of the therapeutic dose adjusted to each lesion and each patient.
An endowment to which the hospital center has allocated a total investment of 1,232,816.27 euros.
With PET – CT (positron emission tomography) a non-invasive diagnostic technique is developed with which images of the patient’s body are taken to understand its activity and metabolism.
Cells that have greater metabolic activity, such as tumor cells, are capable of capturing more of the radioactive substance that is used on the patient.
With this equipment, whose investment is 1.8 million euros, you can see injuries that, until now, were almost impossible to locate, allowing for early detection.
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