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Southern Scientific has partnered with Tema Sinergie, an Italy-based manufacturer of nuclear medicine products, to distribute its hand, foot and clothes monitor. The monitor is available in two models and is designed to measure gamma radiation and contamination levels on hands, feet, clothes, gloves and footwear. CMS60D systems are equipped with five identical GM tube […]

Staff in the A&E department at Glasgow Royal Infirmary are finding the metal artefact reduction algorithm on their CT system enables them to gain clearer imaging to assist more confident and faster diagnosis. The SEMAR application on the Canon Medical Aquilion Prime SP CT eliminates the distortion of metallic artefacts inside patients generated from items […]

X-ray protection and imaging accessories company Rothband started up 160 years ago in the Manchester home of W S Rothband himself, manufacturing small make-up/sponge bags from waterproof cloth that was “guaranteed not to crack.” By 1900 WSRM trademarked rubber sheeting for bed protection was the mainstay of the business and, according to the company’s archives, […]

A consortium of NHS trusts around the south coast of England has signed its second deal this year with imaging technology provider Sectra in order to improve sharing and access to diagnostic imaging. A shared multimedia archive will also allow the trusts to accelerate ambitions for initiatives including AI. Known as SWASH, the consortium includes […]

Leicester General Hospital has received the UK’s first Alphenix Sky + system from Canon Medical Systems. The system was installed in the hospital’s new interventional suite by managed service provider Althea. The hospital’s clinical team and Althea’s technology team undertook an official procurement exercise last year to look at all the interventional systems on the […]

Wardray Premise has become an approved supplier of QuantaShield, a versatile radiation shielding product manufactured in the UK. It offers a shielding solution against x-rays, gamma rays, protons, neutrons and magnetic fringe fields. The standard interlocking blocks are offered with densities between 2g/cc and 4g/cc; however, ad hoc densities can be achieved to meet client […]

In this year’s study carried out by the FAZ Institute in cooperation with the Institute for Management and Economic Research as well as scientific associate Prognos, ulrich medical has been named one of Germany’s innovation leaders for the year 2020. The comparison is based on an international patent analysis over the last ten years. A […]

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has received the first CT container solution from Siemens Healthineers, which will provide a separate environment for the scanning of non-COVID-19 related examinations. With chest CT scans vital in the identification of viral pneumonia and tracking disease progression, CT plays a critical role in diagnosis and aiding clinical […]