Our Quality Assurance Programme

An essential component of achieving this has been a continuous and vigorous Governance, Quality Assurance and Quality Control Programme.

INM has recently been audited by internationally renowned specialists such as:

• Dr S. Wann from the Wisconsin Heart Hospital (Cardiac CT)

• Prof. H. Macapinlac

• MD Anderson, Texas (Oncology PET)

• Prof. Steiner from Zurich (Thoracic CT and PET)

• Prof. D. Anagnostopoulos, Academy of Athens (cardiac PET)

We are the 1st UK Department to have been audited successfully twice by the British Nuclear Medicine Society.

We are also accredited by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine.

Our Clinical Physics Team.

The Clinical Physics group is responsible for the provision of scientific support to the clinical Nuclear Medicine department and is also active in many research areas: the group lead on a number of research projects and support clinical and translational research within the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and beyond.

We support the clinical department in many ways; we help to ensure that the patient images acquired contain the best possible diagnostic information by optimising image acquisition and reconstruction, and performing regular quality assurance of the department’s state-of-the-art PET-CT, PET-MR and SPECT-CT imaging systems. We also play an important role in the development of the service provided to patients, through introducing and evaluating new techniques. We are central to the Molecular radiotherapy service; we are involved in a wide range of therapy administrations and we are working to implement and improve methods of dosimetry calculations, to provide patient-specific treatment information.