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Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has added a further Canon Medical Systems CT system to its diagnostic imaging department with the installation of an Aquilion Prime SP CT scanner. It will sit alongside an existing Aquilion One Genesis Edition and was selected due to the hospital’s familiarity with Canon Medical and its positive […]

Two students with stand-out leadership skills have both won a place on a prestigious national health programme. University of Cumbria students Ismat Khan and Matthew Price applied for a place on the Council of Deans of Health UK Student Leadership Programme and were accepted, before the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown. The programme selects the […]

Alliance Medical services the phase one and part of phase two NHS England national PETCT contract and is continuing to add capacity to its UK-wide network of scanning sites. In September last year it opened a PETCT centre in Newcastle at the Freeman Hospital, which was followed in November by a modular centre at Norfolk […]

Hertfordshire radiographer Chris Shepherd is using a 3D printer to make visors for local health and care workers, following a successful fund-raising drive. After some research, Shepherd found some visor designs that had been made public access by Prusa Research in response to the pandemic. The design had been through a number of prototypes and […]

Althea’s specialist biomed engineers have been working at NHS Nightingale Hospital London to build, test and commission thousands of pieces of medical equipment ready for the first patients to be treated. All of the engineers volunteered for the role after Althea was awarded the contract for dedicated biomed managed equipment support. “The response from our […]

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust has installed an Aquilion Prime SP CT from Canon Medical Systems in a scanning room created from a relocated angio suite. An extensive range of applications have been included to boost its versatility across a range of complex and routine clinical procedures in neuro, cardiac, orthopaedic, oncology, CT-guided intervention and […]

Agfa has published a white paper that demonstrates the clinical value of digital tomosynthesis (DTS) in productivity-oriented clinical environments. The paper includes several MSK cases with indications, imaging examples and the added value propositions of DTS. In clinical practice, planar x-ray images are usually the first imaging technique used. However, in many cases patients require […]

Earlier this year the radiology department at Spire Murrayfield Hospital, Wirral, began a new vacuum-assisted breast biopsy service using the Hologic Brevera breast biopsy system and its upgraded Selenia Dimensions digital mammography system. Consultant radiologist Dr Asha Shivaram works at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and at Spire Murrayfield. She said: “I was thrilled that […]