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Hospitals across the UK have upgraded MRI facilities following a £200 million investment as part of a government commitment to improving screening and diagnostic services. Magnetom Sola MRI systems from Siemens Healthineers are being installed as part of the drive. Eleven of these systems are installed in new relocatable modular solutions, supporting the NHS to […]

Linnaeus-owned Woodward Veterinary Practice in Ashby-de-la-Zouch has installed a CDSR Small Animal DR system supplied by imaging company Veterinary X-rays. Lead vet James Alexander said the new equipment would further boost the service it provides to patients across north Leicestershire and south Derbyshire. He commented: “This new x-ray system is regarded as the pinnacle of […]

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust recently called on provider of imaging equipment sales and service Mount International United Services (MIUS) to supply an MRI patient monitor. Following preparation and testing, MIUS set up and installed an Iradimed MRI patient monitor in the radiology department, for use alongside a new magnet. MIUS procurement expert Dani Langson worked […]

The digital transformation of radiology started in 1971 when the first computed tomography (CT) scan was performed at the Atkinson Morley Hospital, Wimbledon. The brain scan took five minutes to complete and an additional 150 minutes for the data to be processed into images: each image having a total resolution of 80×80 pixels. Up until […]

A laboratory at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust has been given an award by Royal Philips after investing in state-of-the-art equipment, which makes it the first laboratory in the UK to receive the award. In April 2020, during the first lockdown, the histopathology department at Peterborough City Hospital took advantage of the slowdown in […]

Envirotect has been involved in the installation of an RF cage at a challenging site. The design incorporated a sloping roof to the existing building, which needed to be replicated in the RF cage design. Envirotect says the successful installation was due to the fact that the company visits sites at least once to verify […]

The British Nuclear Medicine Society annual virtual meeting is to be held on September 27-29. This is three days of virtual meeting with two to three streams of lectures involving multiple subjects for all of the craft groups working in nuclear medicine within the UK and across the world. Speakers from Los Angeles, Pretoria, Skopje, […]

The close collaborations between industry, sport and academia are heralding many advances in imaging research techniques to improve cardiac health for all The world watched in horror as Inter Milan player Christian Eriksen suffered a sudden cardiac arrest during the Denmark vs Finland UEFA Euro 2020 football match played in summer 2021. This rare but […]