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Spire Little Aston Hospital in Birmingham has introduced a Hologic mammography machine, said to be the only one of its kind in Spire Healthcare hospitals across the UK. The Brevera breast biopsy unit streamlines the process, reducing time under compression. It integrates vacuum-assisted sampling and instant specimen imaging within the same device, allowing the user […]

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH), Ohio, is collaborating with healthcare AI company Qure.ai to deploy chest x-ray AI to support earlier identification of lung cancers. Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the USA. Guidelines recommend low dose CT lungcancer screening as the standard of care for high risk individuals. However, […]

St Joseph’s Hospital, Newport, hosted its first CT Study Day in June, welcoming specialist radiographers from across Wales and beyond. The event marked the hospital’s third annual study day for radiographers, following two MRI-focused CPD events, and was held in recognition of the installation of a CT suite featuring a Canon Aquilion One/Insight Edition scanner […]

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has become the first hospital in the world to treat a patient using an advanced radiotherapy planning system from RaySearch Laboratories. The technology introduces online adaptive radiotherapy (oART), which enables clinicians to make same-day adjustments to a treatment plan, while the patient is on the treatment bed. Treatment is […]

Walsall Manor Hospital has expanded its diagnostic imaging capacity with the installation of a second Carestream Evolution x-ray room. It follows implementation of the first room in 2024 and reflects the West Midlands hospital’s continued investment in modern, efficient radiology services. Installation was completed with the support of medical equipment supplier Medray. “We are very […]

LAITEK’s Migratek and Enlitic’s Endex AI are designed to help smooth the PACS migration process. A smooth go-live means keeping control, avoiding chaos and delivering the results expected by the team, Enlitic says. Downtime disrupts care as clinicians cannot access studies and patients wait longer for results. Problems can include data mapping errors, with images […]

Leeds Cancer Centre at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has taken a step forward in radiotherapy planning with the upgrade of a Philips Ingenia Evolution 1.5T MRI to include SmartSpeed technology. In July, it became one of the first radiotherapy centres in the world, alongside others in Japan and the Netherlands, to use SmartSpeed clinically. […]

Hospitals, NHS trusts, integrated care boards, health boards, imaging networks and imaging centres can face challenges with fragmented imaging data and incompatible systems across different locations. This can result in delayed diagnoses and inefficient workflows, creating barriers to collaboration and care delivery across care teams and with patients, according to distributor of medical supplies Hospital […]