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Guide aims to help imaging departments achieve green goals

Canon Medical Systems UK has released a five-point guide to help radiology departments make progressive steps towards the NHS net zero carbon emissions targets. A Green Guide for UK Diagnostic Imaging sets out steps that can be taken by radiographers, clinicians and health managers in procurement or sustainability roles to start working towards improving sustainability […]

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Prompt refurbishment helps New Cross equip temporary CT room

Mount International United Services (MIUS) has assisted New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, in setting up a temporary CT room. With just two weeks’ notice the MIUS team planned the project as requested. New Cross Hospital had commissioned the refurbishment of an existing CT room and procurement of a new system. To ensure continued patient care, it […]

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Zegami platform helps build unbiased data models

Zegami provides an image-based data visualisation platform designed to enable users to explore large image datasets in order to unlock insights and build machine learning models. The company points out that, with any system that is reliant on data, overall effectiveness is dependent on the quality of data that it utilises. If the data is […]

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Swansea’s A-STEM adds portable ultrasound to take research beyond the campus

Swansea University’s Applied Sports, Technology, Exercise and Medicine (A-STEM) research centre has added a MyLab Omega portable ultrasound system from Esaote. A-STEM staff conduct multidisciplinary cutting-edge research, focusing on elite sport, exercise and nutritional medicine and many aspects of public health. The associated undergraduate degree in exercise and sports science is ranked in the top […]

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Bespoke biological safety cabinet fits the bill at Sheffield PET-MRI

Sheffield PET-MRI facility has installed a bespoke biological safety cabinet and lead-lined furniture from Bartec and Raditech. Set in a state-of-the-art centre attached to the existing University of Sheffield MRI unit at Royal Hallamshire Hospital, it is said to be the UK’s eighth and Yorkshire’s only PETMR facility. The cabinet was installed in the dispensing […]

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Northumbria Healthcare adds mammography chairs to ensure comfort during examinations

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has taken delivery of two types of mammography chair from Wolverson X-ray, at Hexham, Wansbeck and North Tyneside general hospitals. Superintendent radiographer Katie Quigley said: “Since receiving the model 8200 mammography chairs, we have found positioning immobile or unsteady patients a lot easier. Because the chair is lightweight and small, […]

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