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Alliance Medical is once again supporting and sponsoring the BNMS Spring Meeting. As a leading independent provider of imaging services, the company says it combines customer service with technical and clinical excellence, as well as value for money. “Our collaborative and innovative approach to imaging places patients, clinicians and NHS and independent providers at the […]

What if you could lighten your workload? Speed up your workflow? Easily tailor exposure parameters? Sounds like magic? Not at all. X-ray intelligence at work Agfa’s SmartXR assistant offers you predictive workflow assistance, for improved productivity and consistent outcomes. Acquiring x-rays is both a science and an art. So many variables, so many options, …all […]

Terumo UK will be presenting the Quirem Holmium Platform at the BNMS Spring Meeting. Terumo Europe acquired Netherlands-based healthcare start-up Quirem Medical BV in July 2020. It specialises in the development of next generation microspheres for selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) treatment for liver tumours, and the company has now been fully integrated into the […]

The Radiological Research Trust (RRT) has awarded a grant to enable research into the use of neuroradiology techniques in COVID-19 diagnosis. In September last year, a team led by Dr Tom Booth, senior lecturer in neuroradiology and consultant at King’s College London and neuroradiologist at King’s College Hospital (KCH), identified a biomarker that could identify […]

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 […]