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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 […]

Aintree University Hospital has reselected Canon Medical Systems to replace two end-of-life CT scanners with two Aquilion One Genesis Edition CT systems. Part of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Aintree University Hospital serves a large patient population and is a regional major trauma centre. One of the biggest challenge the trust faced in the […]

With the demand for portable ultrasound scans increasing due to COVID-19, East Surrey Hospital wanted a system that performs as a portable ultrasound system and can then be used to replace an existing interventional radiology system. A Samsung HS60 supplied by MIS Healthcare is being used to perform a wide range of ultrasound applications including […]

The first NHS hospital installation of Advanced intelligent Clear-IQ Engine (AiCE), a deep learning reconstruction AI algorithm, is now live at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey. It is integrated into an Aquilion One Genesis Edition CT scanner from Canon Medical Systems and is being used to improve the reconstruction and reporting of vascular cases by […]

Life Molecular Imaging, a division of Alliance Medical Group, develops novel PET tracers for molecular imaging. The company’s first commercial product is NeuraCeq, a radiopharmaceutical tracer for PET imaging of patients that are being evaluated for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other causes of cognitive impairment. The technology makes it possible to rule out AD or […]