The CT helps simplify complex image-guided needle procedures with targeted needle path planning and guidance, image fusion and laser-guided needle insertion for biopsies.

Kirsty Walker, deputy head of imaging at ROH, said: ‘As a specialist orthopaedic hospital with a large number of oncology patients, CT-guided biopsies are an integral part of our care service but they require patients to undergo anaesthesia.'

The installation took 12 weeks during which the trust introduced a modular scanner on site to continue service.

Walker added: ‘Through careful planning and collaboration across teams, we were able to continue to provide these critical interventional treatments while we replaced our CT scanner. The temporary solution involved a second portable cabin to act as an anaesthesia and recovery suite for patients to receive treatment, comfortably and safely. Not only could we provide urgent CT-guided biopsies for our oncology patients, we were also able to continue providing CT-guided injections for our spinal patients without needing to refer them to other hospitals in the region while these works were underway.'