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Lara Barron has been appointed as Davies Veterinary Services head of cardiology. She brings her knowledge and expertise to enhance the capabilities of the practice’s cardiology services. Barron received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan, USA, in 2006, received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Colorado State University and completed a rotating […]

Envirotect has been working on behalf of M&O Building Contractors to install an RF cage to house a Siemens Healthineers Magnetom Altea 1.5T MRI system at Lymington New Forest Hospital. The Magnetom Altea was purchased by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust after the previous one was decommissioned due to its age. The new system and […]

Radiologist Andy Holdsworth has been named head Davies Veterinary Services diagnostic imaging service. He graduated from the University of Bristol in 2009 and worked in a small animal first opinion practice in Nottingham before completing a one-year rotating small animal internship at Southern Counties Veterinary Specialists. During this time, he developed an interest in diagnostic […]

A new way to optimise dose delivery and beam monitoring for proton beam therapy has gained £300k funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council. JetDose technology offers potential to improve treatment outcomes and increase patient throughput at cancer treatment centres. JetDose is a novel real-time beam monitor and dosimetry system being developed by the […]

Oncology Systems Limited (OSL) is celebrating the 25th delivery of the QUASAR programmable respiratory motion phantom (pRESP) in the UK and Ireland. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust procured the pRESP for Cheltenham General Hospital via NHS Supply Chain after testing OSL’s demonstration pRESP on its CT and linac machines. “We are really pleased with our […]

Many radiology departments across the UK have already discovered the benefits of teleradiology in shifting the reporting workflow away from the clinical setting and improving efficiencies in reporting, says provider of display solutions LG. “Following recent news of a £250 million investment in technology to improve diagnostics in the NHS in England, the value of […]

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has praised the robustness and reliability of its Canon Medical Vantage Orian 1.5T MRI at Wycombe Hospital in underpinning a major imaging modernisation project. The system is currently playing a ‘workhorse’ role in delivering continuous patient scanning as the trust updates its MRI equipment across the hospital sites. “It’s an unusual […]

The BIR Godfrey Hounsfield Memorial Lecture was delivered by Professor Vicky Goh at The British Institute of Radiology’s annual congress in November. Professor Goh received her award after her talk on ‘PET-MR: integrating the best of both modalities for cancer care.’ Professor Goh is head of department, cancer imaging, at the School of Biomedical Engineering […]