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Superintendent radiographer Ali Guest and her team at Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool, have received a motorised mammography chair that is expected to improve the way mammograms are performed for patients who cannot stand. Supplied by Wolverson X-ray, the REAL 8200 Plus EL Clinic mammography chair helps the patient achieve correct posture and also facilitates a good […]

Dr Ralph Leijenaar from Maastricht University Medical Centre, the Netherlands, has been awarded the BJR Barclay Medal Award for his paper on ‘Development and validation of a radiomic signature to predict HPV (p16) status fromstandard CT imaging: a multicentre study.’ It was presented by Dr Jane Phillips-Hughes at the BIR Annual Congress in November. The […]

The North East Scotland Breast Screening Centre at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary is the first department in Scotland to install the Hologic Brevera breast biopsy system with Corlumina imaging technology. Advanced practitioner Michelle Cumming said: “The machine is brilliant to use. The unique selling point is the ability to image your specimen in real-time during the […]

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been accredited by ISAS since 2011 and has now qualified for its replacement the Quality Standard for Imaging (QSI) 2019. Blackpool says it was the first NHS trust to receive accreditation and is one of a small group of trusts to have been accredited by UKAS. Maintaining this […]

Future Medical Equipment was a sponsor of the Cardiovascular CT Angiography study day in Edinburgh. The event, hosted by MDCT and CT/MRI Safety Matters, was an opportunity for Future Medical UK technical product sales lead Iain Quarrie and northern business lead Jenny Tibbs to demonstrate an MRI patient monitor. The non-magnetic, portable patient monitor and […]

UK-based health technology company Ultromics has received 510(K) clearance from the USA FDA for its image analysis system EchoGo Core. EchoGo applies AI to automate the analysis and quantification of ultrasound-based heart scans. It has been years in development, from the first trial being set up in 2011 to Ultromics spinning out of the University […]

One hundred radiographers and students attended a CT conference in Edinburgh in November. This was the first joint MDCT and CT/ MRI Safety Matters CT Angiography event in the UK. CT physics including resolution, pitch, collimation and strategies to reduce patient radiation were covered before the cardiovascular system was illustrated with detailed slides. It was […]

Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry, Londonderry, has invested in a Philips Veradius Unity C-arm and a Stille imagiQ2 table, which will be used predominantly for abdominal fluoroscopy. Senior radiographer Nuala Quigg said: “We selected Veradius Unity to reduce patient dose and, in order to further reduce dose and improve image quality, we purchased the Stille table. […]