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Europe’s first clinical installation of a Canon Medical Systems Alphenix interventional imaging system for cardiology has gone live at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust. It replaced an older system and will be used to support minimally invasive cardiac procedures including diagnostic angiograms, pacemaker implants, percutaneous coronary intervention using optical coherence tomography, intravascular ultrasound, fractional flow reserve […]

Therapeutic radiographer at Ipswich Hospital Sue Downes has been named hospital/ ambulance person of the year in the Stars of Suffolk 2019 awards, supported by the East Anglian Daily Times and Ipswich Star. Downes has been a therapeutic radiographer since 2003 and works within the planning team. Praising her dedication and for performing her job […]

Envirotect is celebrating 20 years in business, since its launch in 2000 by managing director Niven Smith. The company has grown to become an established provider of structural radiation shielding to the medical, construction and engineering sectors throughout the UK and internationally. Introducing RF cages with associated products including magnetic steel shielding, RF tests, door […]

Professor Andrew Scarsbrook received the Sir Godfrey Hounsfield Memorial Award following delivery of his lecture ‘PETCT: from evolution to revolution’ to a packed auditorium at the BIR annual congress in November. He gave an in-depth analysis of the progress of PETCT from the early development years by Hounsfield through to the current day. A dual-certified […]

De Montfort University, Leicester, has developed a new Diagnostic Radiography BSc (Hons) programme and needed an x-ray system that would deliver both manual operation and full state-of-the-art automation. The clinical and estates teams worked together to ensure that they chose the most appropriate equipment for the needs of the students and the best value solution […]

Chesterfield Royal Hospital has installed three Fujifilm Visionary Suite room solutions and invested in a new FDR nano mobile x-ray unit as part of a departmental overhaul. Despite closing two rooms the team has found patient throughput is quicker and departmental statistics show it is seeing more patients. The redesigned department also offers patients improved […]

Vertec Scientific is partnering with Hyland Healthcare as supplier of several of its enterprise imaging solutions. Vertec will be offering NilRead universal and diagnostic viewer, said to be the only solution that provides both referential viewing and advanced clinical visualisation capabilities. NilRead complements PACS viewers by streamlining radiology workflows and giving radiologists the freedom to […]

Academic clinical fellow in clinical radiology Dr Andrew Nanapragasam from King’s College Hospital, London, has been presented with a BIR/Siemens Healthineers research bursary to develop a clinically applicable means of identifying muscle fibres affected by motor neurone disease (MND). The award was presented by Siemens Healthineers managing director GB and Ireland Peter Harrison and The […]