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The precision of paediatric fluoroscopy examinations at Leeds Children’s Hospital has been enhanced by the installation of a multidirectional C-arm from Canon Medical Systems. The Ultimax-i replaced an end-of-life system from a different vendor and has delivered upgraded and diverse functionality for a range of paediatric examinations. Team manager for paediatric radiology at Leeds Teaching […]

The Health and Social Care (HSC) service in Northern Ireland is to transform the way in which diagnostic services are delivered as it brings together millions of digital patient images in a single system, provided by Sectra. Called NIPACS+, the programme will see every trust across Northern Ireland break down silos of imaging information to […]

The BIR Godfrey Hounsfield Memorial Lecture was delivered by Dr Thomas Flohr at the BIR Annual Congress in September. The award was presented after his talk ‘A brief history of computed tomography – from Hounsfield’s brain scanner to photon-counting CT’. Dr Flohr is associate professor of medical physics at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Dr […]

The Scandinavian leaders of AI in breast imaging presented their research at the ScreenPoint symposium at EUSOBI 2022 in Malmo, Sweden. Dr Kristina Lang presented the MASAI trial, the first prospective randomized controlled trial on the use of AI in breast screening as an alternative for double reading. Based on her previous retrospective studies, she is convinced that […]

Television presenter Gloria Hunniford is heading up a campaign to promote the delivery of localised NHS cancer treatment with the use of mobile units. Hunniford lost her daughter Caron Keating to breast cancer in 2004 and is a patron of charity Hope for Tomorrow, which provides the NHS with mobile cancer care units. The charity […]

In October Fujifilm UK Limited opened its new UK headquarters in Bedford, where company operations have been based for almost 40 years. In a nod to the company’s Japanese heritage, Fujifilm House was officially opened with a traditional Japanese Kagami Biraki ceremony in which the lid of a sake barrel is smashed open to represent […]

Every day, a diverse patient population presents unique imaging challenges to CT departments all over the country. North Devon District Hospital’s CT department understand this and recently made the decision to upgrade their CT injector to Bayer’s Medrad Centargo to help face these challenges. Individualising protocols for every patient’s scan has in the past been […]

In 2010, Pontefract Hospital, part of the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, was the first hospital in the UK to install the Carestream DRX-Evolution room. Nearly 12 years later, with over 113 patients daily and 496,501 exposures, the room is still in use. Supplier of diagnostic imaging products Medray says this demonstrates the capability and […]