Daisy Appeal is fundraising for a new £2.5m digital scanner for the Jack Brignall Centre. PET/CT is a diagnostic imaging technique used mainly in oncology, neurology, cardiology, infection and inflammation, and in planning surgery and treatment.

It gives clinicians two sets of related information about the body – functional and structural – from one examination. The CT scanner takes a series of two-dimensional cross-section images (‘slices’) around an axis. Computer processing is then used to construct a three-dimensional image. PET works by detecting gamma rays given off by a radioactive tracer injected into the body.

Daisy operates 3 facilities at Castle Hill Hospital, each contributing to saving lives through our PET-CT research and diagnostics.The new digital scanner for the Jack Brignall Centre has the capability to deliver to growing waiting lists of up to 7500 patients per year in the next decade, doubling the amount of scans being undertaken by the analogue scanning facility. The digital scanner will work with the new Molecular Imaging Research Centre producing new radiotracers for specific forms of diseases, and help us earlier diagnose and treat life these threatening illnesses.