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Belfast Health and Social Care Trust’s orthopaedic service based at Musgrave Park Hospital provides a full range of elective orthopaedic procedures including joint replacement, spinal surgery and upper and lower limb surgery. The radiology department required a solution that would allow it to take single exposure long view images, improve efficiency and lower dose. “We […]

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Birkenhead, has received a DRX-Evolution Plus digital x-ray system from Medray, the distributor for Carestream products in the UK and Ireland. The newest features of the system include a table with higher weight capacity of up to 320kg, enhanced paediatric capabilities, extended tube column range for sites with high ceilings and a […]

The first installation of the MARIA breast imaging system in Germany took place in August at the Diagnostic Breast Centre in Göttingen. Training on the system has been completed and the first patient scanned. This is the first system to be installed as part of a distribution agreement between Hologic and Micrima in Germany, Austria […]

The impact of COVID-19 on diagnostic imaging at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust has increased demand for chest CT scans, created a backlog of routine patient scans and increased the time needed to clean CT rooms between patients. It is estimated that an extra 62 hours of CT scanning time is required each week. To […]

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has upgraded one of its Varian radiotherapy machines, which it says makes it the first in the country to offer Ethos therapy that uses AI to tailor treatment to the daily needs of patients. The upgrade went live in August, treating three prostate cancer patients on its […]

MRI Safety Week is an international event held annually in July to commemorate six-year-old Michael Columbini, who died in 2001. After undergoing an MRI examination at Westchester Medical Centre, New York, he was involved in an accident whereby his head was crushed by a metal oxygen tank being pulled across the room from the MR […]

The obstetric department at Bedford Hospital, part of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has installed two Aplio a450 diagnostic ultrasound systems to replace ageing units. The new systems introduce refreshed imaging technology and continue a long-standing imaging relationship between the trust and Canon Medical Systems UK. “The new Aplio systems are great all-rounders for our […]

Ultrasound and MR system manufacturer Esaote was among the exhibitors at UKIO’s online congress in June and approached the event with great enthusiasm, as UK country manager Nicky Mills explained: “We have a lot to say about our products and if doing it over the internet is the way forward, we decided to give it […]