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Following a £2million investment, European Scanning Centre Marylebone has unveiled its brand-new GE Healthcare Discovery MI Gen 2 digital PETCT scanner, which will speed up diagnoses for patients with cancer and neurological, cardiovascular or inflammatory diseases. This state-of-the-art digital PETCT scanner, provides increased sensitivity and spatial resolution of images, allowing for more accurate detection and […]

The Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s Heart Attack Centre has become the first in England to install the Artis icono floor from Siemens Healthineers. The addition of the multi-axis floor angiography system is part of a project to improve imaging quality at the trust, allowing more confident diagnoses and optimising clinical workflows. The Heart […]

BMI Three Shires Hospital, Cliftonville, has acquired a new Logiq E10 ultrasound system from GE Healthcare. The Logiq E10 provides tools designed to give the hospital’s radiologists confidence in their diagnostic decisions and allow them to obtain detailed scanning of small extremities such as fingers and toes, due to the additional specialist probe. Based on […]

Fujifilm has developed a sensitive and rapid COVID-19 antigen test kit using its proprietary silver amplification immunochromatography (or lateral flow) method. This technology, used in the photo-developing process, enhances the sensitivity of test results by detecting the virus at an early stage and with relatively low levels of viral load. Fujifilm says the sensitivity of […]

A consortium of 13 Cheshire and Merseyside NHS trusts has been supported by Royal Philips to become the first regional hub supplying the National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID). The deployment of a single SMART box has provided access to 15 years of imaging data across 2.5 million people in the region, the largest single […]

Poole Hospital’s rheumatology department has purchased an Esaote MyLab 9 eXP. The ultrasound system is well suited to rheumatology due to its sensitive Power Doppler function and a wide range of transducers up to 25MHz. Consultant rheumatologist Dr Muhammad Khurshid has used several Esaote ultrasound systems in the past few years in his rheumatology practice. […]

The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, part of NHS Lothian, has installed two AI-assisted CT scanners from Canon Medical Systems. Designed using Deep Learning Reconstruction, they are powered by an Advanced intelligent Clear-IQ Engine (AiCE) to deliver high quality medical imaging at speed. “As radiographers we can become blasé about the imaging equipment we use on […]

Envirotect reports that it has continued to install its copper radiofrequency cages across the UK throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. As an integral part of RF cage installations the company carries out a minimum of two RF tests, the first on completion of the RF cage and a second after the magnet delivery. Each test is […]