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Warrington Hospital, part of Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has received the UK’s first Aquilion One Prism Edition CT from Canon Medical Systems. In the first 24 hours of operation, the hospital was reportedly already impressed with the image quality and acquisition speed, a particular advantage in patients who are technically challenging […]

Esaote is bringing to market a range of ultrasound systems that it says will address nearly all clinical ultrasound applications and allow customers to experience the latest technology combined with an enhanced imaging experience. From the point of care to the research laboratory, Esaote says it has a system for the extensive needs and applications […]

The University of Aberdeen’s clinical research imaging facility has chosen BridgeHead Software’s independent clinical archive HealthStore to collect, store and protect its clinical research data. Researchers in the university’s recently upgraded Biomedical Imaging Centre will be able to effectively manage medical images that drive understanding of the causes, mechanisms and consequences of conditions such as […]

Imaging Innovated is providing a series of interactive online CT courses to ensure continuing support for its customers. The first of these, called Image Quality and Dose Optimisation, will be delivered in September and is intended to provide the skills and information to optimise  clinical practice and improve understanding of diagnostic quality and dose relationships […]

The breast screening and assessment centre at Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) wanted to provide the best possible care for local patients and has purchased a Hologic Selenia Dimensions 3D mammography system for its new static screening site at the Campus for Ageing and Vitality. The centre treats more than 550 breast cancer patients a year […]

A&E lead and reporting radiographer Sarah Landeg reports that not even the COVID-19 pandemic could stop the long-awaited re-development of Croydon University Hospital’s A&E x-ray service. Phase one of building works began in March just before the hospital started to receive COVID-19 cases. Works continued throughout the peak of the pandemic and staff began using […]

Fairford Medical has been supporting The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust with an unstaffed interim mobile MRI to provide scanning services while the trust undertakes a lengthy capital upgrade at its original west London site. Fairford Medical initially delivered one of its three-year-old mobile Siemens Avanto MRI systems, but offered to replace it as soon […]

The Fujifilm medical informatics team and supporting supply chain staff have been working hard to help build dozens of home reporting workstations in the UK, so that radiologists can report from the safety of their own homes. Starting in March, ‘operation workstation’ involved the team unboxing monitors and computers, which were built and configured as […]