Tendances en médecine nucléaire : renouvellement du TEP/TDM au sein du service de médecine nucléaire du centre hospitalier universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Suisse

Abstract

After a technology life of a machine imaging positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (PET/CT), the nuclear medicine department of the Centre hospitalier universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) has renewed its unique equipment. He realized at that time, a number of reorganizations for the arrival of the new “PET/CT”. This project is crucial for the nuclear medicine department and should be part of a rigorous approach to both the organization of replacement of equipment and on the adaptation of the host structure. The CHUV has chosen a new generation machine reducing the examination time, the amount of radiotracer and thus the dose to the patient while increasing the performance of lesion detection. To take full advantage of this technology, it was necessary to establish the needs of all stakeholders nuclear medicine department and associated them in the procedure in order to acquire. This process was organized by the Biomedical Engineering Department in order to offer the new technology to meet cost to expectations of doctors and patients.