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Vertec Scientific has built up an enviable reputation for delivering and supporting quality products over a wide range of modalities, including dosimetry, radiotherapy, treatment positioning, high quality aprons, bone densitometry scanning, and digital radiography. Vertec's way of working is to build and nurture long term relationships with our customers. In this way, we bring the best products we can to their work and go on to support these products over many years - our support of many of our older systems – over 15 years old in some cases -  are good examples of this-philosophy.

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Breath Hold Monitoring from Vertec
Developed at the Mayo Clinic, the Breath Hold device, manufactured by Medspira and now marketed in the UK by Vertec Scientific, increases radiologists’ accuracy and confidence during needle biopsy of the lung.During scanning, a simple light display allows the patient to visualise their breathing level and consistently return to it during subsequent biopsies. This consistency in breath-hold positioning is crucial as structures can vary one to six centimeters during normal breathing. Reliable positioning of the target lesion allows for increased rates of nodules being accessed in one needle puncture and a decreased numbers of imaging steps. The decrease in imaging steps during the biopsy reduces the procedure time. Breath Hold provides a faster procedure and also a safer one. Reduced imaging steps means less radiation exposure for both the patient and radiologist. Intermittent imaging has the additional advantage of virtually no radiation exposure for staff as they can leave the room during imaging steps. Increasing the accuracy of the needle biopsy also reduces the post-procedure complications. Confidence in needle placement reduces needle manipulation during the procedure and invasive surgical biopsies can be avoided.  Before Breath Hold, nodules considered too small or inaccessible for needle biopsy were either surgically accessed or left to become larger. Comments Tim Anderson of Medspira, “The Mayo Clinic was able to increase their number of needle biopsy cases seen by interventional radiologists by 30-40% because Breath Hold increased their confidence in adequate sampling during needle biopsy.”