Addenbrooke’s Hospital

Retired professor of radiology Adrian Dixon takes a look back at being part of a body of fund-raisers in Cambridge that raised £1 million to buy and run Addenbrooke’s Hospital’s first whole body CT scanner, the first for the east of England region. It was opened by King Charles, then HRH Prince of Wales, in […]

Cancer patients undergoing treatment at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) are benefiting from a type of  radiotherapy that reduces treatment time while increasing accuracy and patient comfort. Surface-guided radiotherapy (SGRT) is being offered to patients receiving radiotherapy treatment, and uses cameras to create […]

A new state-of-the-art MRI scanner in the MRIS department at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge has been wrapped with vinyl using a nature-based forest design, aimed at ‘bringing the outside in.’ In addition to the scanner, the walls of the scanner room have been transformed with a wrap showing images of sunlight through a forest. The […]

The DXA team at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, part of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has received two Horizon DXA scanners from Vertec Scientific. The Horizon systems build on the capabilities of the Discovery model they replaced and allow the team to select a fast, high definition mode to detect vertebral fractures, using less radiation than […]

Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge has teamed up with charity Little Lifts, which provides boxes of gifts and treats and support to those about to undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy for breast cancer. The boxes contain items such as lolly moulds and recipes to help with loss of taste, moisturisers for sensitive skin and cordials to help […]

A new display at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, highlights how patients have helped shape radiotherapy treatment. The multimedia installation in the entrance to the radiotherapy department has been produced in partnership with a group of patients, some of whom have shared their experience of radiotherapy treatment. In 2019 Cambridge was named by Cancer Research UK as […]

Addenbrooke’s Hospital is finding that the growing range of diagnostic ultrasound probes available for the Canon Medical Aplio i-series ultrasound system is expanding the possibilities for MSK radiology clinical practice and reducing the need for MRI scan appointments. Using high frequency 24MHz and 33MHz linear matrix technology probes, the clinical team at the Cambridge hospital […]

The Radiological Research Trust (RRT) has awarded a grant to enable research into the use of neuroradiology techniques in COVID-19 diagnosis. In September last year, a team led by Dr Tom Booth, senior lecturer in neuroradiology and consultant at King’s College London and neuroradiologist at King’s College Hospital (KCH), identified a biomarker that could identify […]