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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 […]

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 […]