Guided with precision: Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center is 1st in NJ to zero in on tumors with new imaging device
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SUMMIT, NJ – JUNE 2026 – Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center recently unveiled GE HealthCare’s StarGuide SPECT/CT - a new tool that gives radiologists and surgeons the ability to precisely detect lesions in the body – and do it fast. The hospital is the first in New Jersey to use the system.
The StarGuide system represents an advancement in nuclear medicine imaging and precision medicine. It scans patients in 3D with precise, high-quality images that can detect the size, shape, and position of lesions in the body with a high degree of accuracy and short scan times.
For patients, those features translate to short time lying on the scanning table, while offering clear imaging to support confident clinical decisions.
“The StarGuide system offers us more than just a step up in imaging - it is a completely new tool that now allows us to guide decision-making and support procedures we couldn’t do before,” said diagnostic and nuclear radiologist James Cassuto, MD, the Associate System Medical Director of Nuclear Medicine for Atlantic Medical Group and Section Chief of Nuclear Medicine at Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center.
StarGuide’s digital detectors and ability to adjust the proximity of the detectors to the patient’s body as closely as possible, and from all necessary angles, leads to remarkable image quality, volume sensitivity, as well as spatial and energy resolutions. StarGuide’s rapid whole-body scanning time is an important factor in helping improve patient comfort and enabling the patient to remain still during the entire exam.
The system is designed to support Theranostics, a growing field within Nuclear Medicine that combines radionuclide therapy and diagnostic imaging to provide personalized cancer treatment.
In addition to cancer and Theranostics, the StarGuide will also be used to support clinical decision-making and assist Atlantic Health doctors in planning, guiding, and monitoring therapy, including the nuclear medicine component of theranostic procedures. It will also support initiatives in pulmonology – such as cystic fibrosis, asthma, and Zephyr valve placement – and neurology.
What is Theranostics?
Where most medical therapies are designed with the ‘average’ patient in mind, Theranostics brings together diagnostic imaging from systems like the StarGuide and highly targeted therapies in one care pathway to help optimize disease diagnosis and treatment monitoring with molecular imaging technologies and advanced digital solutions. This practice helps provide a more personalized therapy to address the needs of individual patients and represents an exciting step forward in cancer treatment.
What is nuclear medicine?
Nuclear medicine is a unique, specialized field within diagnostic imaging. Nuclear medicine scanners detect radioactive tracers to light up, locate and aid diagnose certain diseases in the body. StarGuide is one of these. Image quality is critical in nuclear medicine; the more precise the image, the better physicians can assess and diagnose diseases.
For more information about Theranostics or nuclear medicine at Atlantic Health, call 908-522-2067.
About Atlantic Health
Atlantic Health is at the forefront of medicine, setting standards for quality health care in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New York metropolitan area. Powered by a workforce of 25,000 team members and more than 5,667 affiliated physicians dedicated to building healthier communities, Atlantic Health serves more than half of the state of New Jersey including 14 counties and 7.5 million people.
The not-for-profit system offers more than 550 sites of care, including its eight hospitals: Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, NJ, Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ, Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center in Newton, NJ, Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center in Pompton Plains, NJ, Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center in Hackettstown, NJ, Atlantic Health Goryeb Children’s Hospital in Morristown, NJ, Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute in Madison, NJ and Atlantic Health CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, NJ.
The system includes Atlantic Medical Group, part of a physician enterprise that makes up one of the largest multispecialty practices in New Jersey with almost 2,000 physicians and advance practice providers. Joined with Atlantic Accountable Care Organization and Optimus Healthcare Partners they form part of Atlantic Alliance, a Clinically Integrated Network of more than 4,000 health care providers throughout northern and central NJ.
Atlantic Health provides care for the full continuum of health care needs through 26 urgent care centers, Atlantic Visiting Nurse and Atlantic Health Virtual Visits. Facilitating the connection between these services on both land and air is the transportation fleet of Atlantic Mobile Health.
Founded by Atlantic Health, the Healthcare Transformation Consortium is a partnership of seven regional hospitals and health systems dedicated to improving access and affordability. Atlantic Health has a medical school affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University, is home to the regional campus of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Centers and is the official health care partner of the New York Jets.