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The migration of data to North Bristol NHS Trust’s new VNA was Insignia’s largest and fastest migration to date, moving 300TB of medical imaging across to the new VNA. Data was processed at a rate of 11-12 million images a day and was completed in just five months. With COVID-19 impacting healthcare services, Insignia and […]

Weston Park Cancer Centre, Sheffield, has added a new Varian TrueBeam radiotherapy system, taking the number of radiotherapy linacs at the centre to eight. Over the course of its lifetime, the machine is expected to provide 100,000 complex treatments to around 6,500 patients undergoing cancer treatment. Clinical director Dr Jackie Martin said: “As a leading […]

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has formed a 15-year technology partnership with Siemens Healthineers in order to transform patient care delivery across eight hospital sites. The partnership will ensure the provision and replacement of key radiology equipment, including more than 350 installations, over 200 of which include critical imaging systems. “This is so much more […]

Royal Philips and The Walt Disney Company EMEA are teaming up to test the effects of custom-made animation, including specially-made Disney stories, within the Philips Ambient Experience. Through the integration of architecture, design and technologies such as dynamic lighting, video projections and sound, Ambient Experience allows patients and staff to personalise the environment to create […]

Designed for the MIMI (multiple imaging modality isocentricity) phantom, HexaCheck allows secure integration with the phantom to make it simple to perform 6D couch commissioning and QA in image-guided radiotherapy. Treatment delivery systems commonly incorporate 6DoF (six degrees of freedom) couches able to correct for rotational errors in all three directions along with translational corrections. […]

Medical technology manufacturer ulrich medical achieved a six per cent increase in sales for 2020 compared to the previous year and generated more than €110 million together with its two subsidiaries. More than 450 employees work for the family-owned company at its headquarters in Ulm, Germany. Even under  pandemic conditions, the company says it offers […]

The Queen Square Imaging Centre, a non-for-profit trading arm of the University College London Hospitals Charity, has upgraded its specialist neuroimaging capabilities with the replacement of its 1.5T Optima MR450 MRI scanner to a state-of-the-art SIGNA Premier XT from GE Healthcare. The SIGNA Premier XT is an ultra-high performance, 70cm bore, 3.0T system built with […]

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has praised the benefits of a ceiling-mounted Alphenix Sky+ interventional imaging system, six months on from becoming the first location in the UK to receive the equipment from Canon Medical Systems. Located at Leicester General Hospital, the system’s 270° C-arm rotation around the table gives flexibility for patient access […]