PET cancer imaging times reduced to half in Turku
PET ERP has significantly improved throughput of medical testing of cancer patients at Turku PET Centre.
Positron-Emission Tomography (PET) is a modern and important method in cancer detection and research, among others. In addition to the PET equipment, precise timing is needed when producing radiopharmaceuticals required in the PET imaging, which makes PET imaging scheduling is a challenging task due.
– I would say that the most important achievement was to reduce the time to half in critical imaging, says Professor Juhani Knuuti, Director of the Turku PET Centre.
– In order to get the most out of our modern PET resources and top knowledge, we decided to acquire a new information system for scheduling.
In practise, the new scheduling tool has cut the required time to half in case of critical imaging with high priority. The tool is a part of the PET ERP process and production planning information system provided by Atostek. Turku PET Centre is a leading institute in research and development of PET imaging and production of PET radiopharmaceuticals applied to patient work and scientific research. The number of annual PET imaging scans is 6,000.
– The critical imaging includes, e.g. cancer detection. The patients can now be scanned earlier and the treatment can take place sooner, describes Prof. Knuuti the advantages.
– Furthermore, a larger number of scans can now be performed in the same time, which means more patients to be scanned and lower unit price per scan, continues Prof. Knuuti.
Significant efficiency improvement by means of digitalisation
Atostek has delivered several information systems to Turku PET Centre, including Peto – a management system for research information, a GMP compatible warehouse inventory system, Enterprise Resource Planning system PET ERP, and a GMP compatible LIMS system. In addition to those, we have contributed to the specification and refinement of internal processes, and designed and implemented several system integrations.
PET ERP enables seamless flow of information within an entire PET centre as it includes everything from resource allocation, scan request managing and scheduling to managing imaging templates, tracer production and tracer batches.
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Turku PET Centre performs medical studies and scientific research using PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scanning. Turku PET Centre is renown worldwide for its high quality and it has several customers who operate globally.
