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The UK can take ‘major strides’ this year towards improving cancer care, according to Proton Partners International (PPI).  The development of new facilities providing advanced cancer treatment and accelerated diagnostic services will be important initial steps in helping to improve cancer survival rates in the UK, which have lagged behind European and North American countries. […]

Established in 2006, the Swansea NHS Trust mobile DXA service scanned more than 1,000 patients in its first year. Since then the service has proved to be very popular, with over 18,000 patients scanned by the end of last year. The mobile service calling at Withybush Hospital, West Wales General Hospital and Singleton Hospital was […]

Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI) has installed a ‘first of its kind’ head and neck cone beam CT scanner featuring patented metal artefact reduction, a 120kV generator and the latest advances in radiographer assistance. Installation of the Carestream CS 9600 CBCT at LRI was facilitated by its long-term vendor-independent managed service provider Althea working in partnership […]

Spire Healthcare Group has added to its installations of Codonics Virtua medical disk publisher units with new arrivals at Spire Portsmouth Hospital and Spire Tunbridge Wells Hospital.  The private hospital group now has 28 Codonics Virtua E units installed and maintained by Hospital Services Limited (HSL). With a compact design and small footprint the Virtua […]

Therapeutic radiography student Heather Hay was awarded the 2018 Fujifilm Medical Systems Award for Academic Excellence at the Queen Margaret University graduation ceremony.  Sponsored by Fujifilm for several years, the prize is awarded to the student with the best grades across the radiography programme, which includes diagnostic and therapeutic radiography students. “It is a delight […]

The University of Derby has unveiled a new £107,000 state-of-the-art image reporting facility that is designed to replicate clinical workflow, to allow students to report images as they would in a real clinical imaging department.  Funded after a successful bid from Health Education England, the image reporting room offers 15 workstations, all with PACS and […]

Knight Imaging, a LabLogic Group company, has launched the Autotilt Kimac, the latest addition to its patient chair range.  Designed to meet patient needs in critical care units, the Kimac is multi-functional, manoeuvrable and easy to use.  The battery-powered Kimac offers a low seating position and provides motorised sit-down and stand-up auto positioning.  It also […]

SunCheck is a fully workflow-based QA solution from Sun Nuclear offering machine and patient QA in an integrated environment.  PerFraction is the machine file/EPID-based plan and patient QA element. SunCheck Patient consists of TPS plan checking, independent secondary dose calculations, pre-treatment phantomless patient QA and full patient in-vivo measurement.  Plan checking will launch from selected TPS scripting […]