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Spire Nottingham Hospital’s imaging team with the Somatom Definition Flash CT. Spire Nottingham Hospital has opened its doors to patients after a two-year building project costing almost £60 million.  The 58-bed hospital contains five theatres along with the latest in MRI scanning and robotic imaging technology. One of the hospital’s features is a hybrid theatre […]

IEL’s Nick Stevens introduces proceedings. Imaging Equipment Limited held its first IEL Conference in Birmingham in June.  The conference ran multiple streams over the two days and was intended to be an exciting educational event for radiotherapy, radiotherapy physics and nuclear medicine.  It also included a V/Q SPECT study day. In addition to the conference […]

Siemens Healthineers managing director Peter Harrison and Dr Susan Shelmerdine. Dr Susan Shelmerdine from Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, has been presented with a BIR/Siemens Healthineers research bursary to allow her to carry out feasibility testing of post-mortem ultrasound-guided core biopsies in the setting of perinatal death investigation. The £1,000 award provides pilot funding for […]

Dr Adam Garnett with a Fujifilm SonoSite Edge ultrasound system. Sportsmen and women on the Channel Island of Jersey have been benefiting point-of-care ultrasound at the Jersey Sports Medicine Clinic since the introduction of a Fujifilm SonoSite Edge system. Sports and exercise medicine consultant Dr Adam Garnett explained: “My interest in sports and exercise medicine started 20 years […]

Dr Emma Senior is to enjoy a champagne hot air balloon flight, courtesy of RRO. Radiology Reporting Online concluded the UKRCO exhibition with its competition draw and drinks.  Winners Dr Emma Senior from West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and Laura Beach from Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust won a champagne hot air balloon flight […]

Consultant radiologist Dr Sarah Fleming, cross-sectional radiographer Neil Jones, lead cross-sectional radiographer Norma Watkins and CT/MR radiographer Ed Laws. Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn has installed a CT Exprès from Bracco in its busy CT scanning department. Lead cross-sectional radiographer Norma Watkins said: “We are very happy with how we are able to save […]

Former patients Lucy Thomas and Emma Payton started the crane that moved the cyclotron into position. The Christie in Manchester has installed its state-of-the-art Varian proton beam therapy cyclotron, marking a major milestone in a national NHS plan to provide high energy proton beam therapy in the UK from next year. Together with the Department […]

Dr Romanowski and members of the faculty celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Sheffield with some of this year’s delegates. The Sheffield Fundamentals of Neuroradiology Course has been attracting delegates from all over the UK, Europe and as far afield as New Zealand and Australia for 20 years. The course aims to bring up-to-date and clinically […]