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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 […]

Ipswich Hospital were one of the eight trusts nationally that installed a brand new Bayer Medrad Centargo CT injection system during its controlled commercial release in 2020.  Emma Smith, CT lead radiographer explains their early experience: “As a department our experience with Centargo has been exceptional from the very start. Having the opportunity to change […]

Earlier this year, the mould room at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham took delivery of a RapidHeat Oven, supplied by Oncology Imaging Systems (OIS), which quickly reaches working temperatures for heating Aquaplast RT and Fibreplast thermoplastics to reduce mask-making time. Chief technologist and mould room manager Jason Bode said of the department’s experience: “All in all, […]