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Cancer patients at The Royal Marsden in Sutton are now able to benefit from the latest radiotherapy technology following the arrival of a CyberKnife system this summer, funded by The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. The Accuray CyberKnife system is a 3D image-guided intensity modulated radiation therapy (IG-IMRT) system that includes treatment planning, imaging and delivery. […]

Since 2018, Fujifilm has installed four Visionary Suite room solutions and five mobile units at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. The installation of the fifth digital imaging room at the hospital this year was undertaken in the midst of lockdown. Despite the challenges posed for both organisations, Fujifilm and Tameside General Hospital […]

Royal Philips has released an ultrasound solution for paediatric assessment, the latest addition for its Epiq Elite ultrasound system. The new solution is said to provide clinicians with exceptionally detailed images and the performance they need to make a definitive diagnosis for paediatric patients, reducing the need for additional diagnostic imaging steps, such as x-ray. […]

An image of a radiographer after a 12-hour night shift at William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, has been chosen as one of 100 photographs representing the UK during lockdown. East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust superintendent radiographer Kyle Tallett took the picture of his colleague Allen Matembo just before the handover between shifts, and it […]

The Veriton-CT, from Spectrum Dynamics Medical, is able to perform multi-focused imaging with its array of 12 fanning CZT solid-state detectors, unlike rectangular field of view SPECT/CT systems. “This ensures that images are of the highest quality and improves specificity, especially where non-specific uptake can negatively affect diagnostic reporting,” says distributor Link Medical. Focused imaging […]

Brought to you in partnership with Mermaid Medical Group. User-innovation is not a new concept within healthcare and the medical device sector, and neither is inventive physicians. However, having an idea and subsequently seeking to commercialize it, is for most medical doctors a rather unknown path. In this brief article, we summarize the case of […]

Canon Medical Systems UK is supporting University of Exeter research by co-funding a PhD studentship to research cardiac function and health and fitness in children with paediatric congenital heart disease. The aim of the project is to improve the understanding of the interaction between heart diseases and exercise and to improve and refine exercise guidelines […]

Ipswich Hospital has purchased an Esaote MyLab 9 for its breast imaging department. Dr Judita Laurinkiene is pictured (right) taking delivery of the new scanner with Esaote ultrasound applications specialist Emma Burgess. Lead radiographer/screening programme manager Judith Berrill said: “We chose the Esaote MyLab 9 because we had always been very happy with our old […]