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Following the announcement that NHS England is accelerating the roll-out of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) treatments nationwide, many cancer centres will require access to specialised immobilisation equipment to enable its safe and effective delivery. Challenges exist in delivering SABR, especially involving treatment sites subject to respiratory motion, such as the lower lobes of the lungs, […]

Oncology Imaging Systems Limited (OIS) has entered an exclusive partnership agreement with NeoMedLight, a Horizon2020 Small and Medium Enterprise (H2020 SME) award winner that develops innovative medical devices targeted at a better delivery of phototherapy. NeoMedLight was selected from thousands of European candidates, receiving a 2,4M€ grant from the European Commission for its CareMin650 device […]

A deep learning reconstruction AI, built into an Aquilion One Genesis Edition CT scanner from Canon Medical Systems UK, is said to be delivering a ‘new era’ of patient imaging at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. “Advanced deep learning reconstruction of clinical images using AiCE heralds a new era in CT. It enables phenomenal […]

Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust has integrated a GE Healthcare Senographe Pristina mammogram system into the breast care unit. The system enables the department to deliver superior diagnostic accuracy in the detection of breast cancer. Consultant radiographer Sarah Knightley said: “Having worked with GE equipment since its digital beginnings in the early 2000s, […]

Public Health England (PHE) in partnership with the University of Oxford has conducted a head-to-head evaluation of four commercial immunoassay tests available in the UK, used for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Siemens Healthineers’ laboratory-based total antibody test was found to meet both the sensitivity and specificity requirements set out within the target product profile […]

Multi-Medix has been showing its support of sonographers worldwide with ‘ultrasound rainbow’ pin badges. Managing director Darren Woolley explained: “While we have regularly commended and clapped to show our gratitude for all staff and keyworkers, as a specialist ultrasound company we wanted to find a way to recognise the ultrasound community specifically. As a result […]

A student radiographer who returned to placement to support the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic has had her video diary account featured on national news. As reported previously in RAD Magazine, radiography student Ismat Khan from the University of Cumbria returned to placement at the Royal Preston Hospital in June to care for patients exhibiting […]

Envirotect operations manager Nigel Payne has been putting his time in furlough to good use by making essential PPE for the NHS, since his wife Amanda mentioned that local schools and companies had been using laser cutters or 3D printers to make face shields. With years of experience in the joinery industry Nigel’s technical mind […]