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Provider of private cancer care services GenesisCare has joined The British Institute of Radiology as a corporate member. GenesisCare delivers holistic oncology care at 12 specialist treatment centres in the UK, spanning radiotherapy, medical oncology, diagnostics, wellbeing services and now theranostics. Head of theranostics and imaging Emma Spellman said: “We are excited to join the […]

India and south east Asia are home to the endangered Asian elephant, which is rapidly declining in numbers due to poaching and habitat destruction. Green Hill Valley park in Myanmar is home to eight elephants that had previously worked in the logging industry. Veterinary advisor to the Elephant Taxon Advisory Group Willem Schaftenaar and colleagues […]

Visbion Image Cube has been installed on three mobile scanning units for Fairford Medical Group, with a view to being rolled out to the rest of its mobile diagnostic imaging facilities following a successful trial. Fairford Medical provides affordable new or refurbished MRI, CT, ultrasound and x-ray medical diagnostic imaging equipment for mobile, relocatable or […]

Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC), part of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, has acquired a Philips Ingenia 1.5T MRI scanner. The replacement scanner joins an existing Ingenia 1.5T system already in use at the centre. QMC covers the Nottingham area with a population of a million. It is also a regional neuro, cardiac and spinal centre […]

Pictured during a training session on the new SIT treatment planning system at Vertec Scientific’s headquarters are (standing) radiotherapy product specialists Gavin Adcock and David White with managing director Bill Hipgrave and SIT executive vice president Francesco Zanetti. SIT’s intraoperative electron radiotherapy (IOeRT) treatment planning system will be launched in the UK this month. Vertec […]

Independent veterinary referral centre The Ralph in Marlow needed two radiation shielding screens to protect its staff when performing x-rays on the animals in their care. After working closely with the team, Raybloc X-ray Protection designed the two screens required, one mobile and one fixed. Staff at The Ralph chose the glass size they required […]

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust has taken delivery of a new baby wrap and feed device from Wolverson X-Ray. This device is designed by Pearl Technology for MRI and other busy imaging departments to improve image quality and patient comfort. MRI scans for newborn babies are not an everyday occurrence and pose special challenges […]

The University of Liverpool’s radiotherapy team has taken delivery of a Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy (VERT) proton simulation module. This software has been provided by Vertual as part of its support for an innovative Strategic Interventions in Health Education Disciplines (SIHED) research project funded by the Office for Students. The research aims to establish the […]