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Senior radiographers Jane Harrison, Michael McCulloch, Robert Perez, Helen Colman, James Craughley, Zoe Wood, Dhru Mehta. St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Tooting has replaced two syringe injectors with Ulrich Medical CT Motion reservoir contrast media injectors.  The CT Motion injectors from UK distributor Synapse Medical are located in the Lanesborough wing. CT superintendent […]

Celebrating the successful publication of RAD Magazine’s 500th issue are Katherine Powell, Sue Wallbank and Mechel Roberts.  Managed services provider Asteral surprised the team with a cake designed to look like a copy of the magazine. Managing director Mechel Roberts said: “We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this issue, our feature […]

The Sheffield Vascular Institute angio team and delegates. Sheffield Endovascular Courses and the Sheffield Vascular Institute ran the first Sheffield PEVAR course, teaching delegates percutaneous endovascular aneurysm repair technique. Institute consultant vascular radiologist Dr Dan Kusuma, who chaired the course, said:  “Abdominal aortic aneurysms have been successfully treated with a graft, hand-sewn through a large […]

Insignia’s user group meeting offered hands-on demonstrations and panel discussions. In September Insignia Medical Systems hosted its annual National User Group Meeting, welcoming users from across the country to join a day of knowledge sharing and networking. Delegates, including radiologists, clinicians and PACS administration teams convened in Basingstoke, to meet the development team and applications […]

Debbie Doolan. Final year student at Glasgow Caledonian University Debbie Doolan from Greenock has received the Fujifilm Award for Best Research Performance. Debbie graduated with a first class honours degree in diagnostic imaging after four years’ study.  Her research comprised a critical review comparing thoracic ultrasound to plain chest x-rays for the detection of pneumonia. […]

With athletes from the Tessa Sanderson Foundation is Toshiba Medical Systems director commercial solutions Ian Watson (back row, second left), commercial solutions manager Joe Vincent (second from right) and managing director Mark Hitchman.  In front, with a TSFA athlete are Homerton University Hospital’s Dr Peter Resteghini and Tessa Sanderson, CBE. A formal partnership between the Tessa […]

Questions are taken by speakers at the meeting at St Paul’s Cathedral. In September, a meeting at St Paul’s Cathedral discussed the practical implications of treating lutetium patients as day cases.  Consultant gastroenterologist Dr Raj Srirajaskanthan from King’s College Hospital, London, led with an informative presentation including a Netter-1 results update and information on managing […]

BIR vice president external affairs Dr Stephen Harden, University of Erlangen professor of cardiology Professor Stephen Achenbach and BIR president Andy Rogers. At the BIR annual congress in November, professor of cardiology at University of Erlangen, Germany, Stephan Achenbach was awarded the Sir Godfrey Hounsfield Memorial Award, following delivery of his lecture ‘Clinical applications of […]