Idle PET scanner should be up and running next year

A VITAL scanner needed to detect cancer and brain disorders, which has lain idle at Cork University Hospital since 2009, should be operational early next year.

The PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scanner, which was purchased two years ago at a cost of €3.8 million, hasn’t been used because of a recruitment embargo.

In 2009, CUH completed the construction of a brand new €6.85 million treatment and diagnostic facility where the PET scanner is located.