angiography

The Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s Heart Attack Centre has become the first in England to install the Artis icono floor from Siemens Healthineers. The addition of the multi-axis floor angiography system is part of a project to improve imaging quality at the trust, allowing more confident diagnoses and optimising clinical workflows. The Heart […]

Cork University Hospital (CUH) has installed the first Artis icono angiography system from Siemens Healthineers in Great Britain and Ireland during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Aided by digitised healthcare applications and remote support platforms, the state-of-the-art technology provides high image quality, bolstering stroke and neuroradiology procedures across Ireland. As one of two neuroradiology […]

One hundred radiographers and students attended a CT conference in Edinburgh in November. This was the first joint MDCT and CT/ MRI Safety Matters CT Angiography event in the UK. CT physics including resolution, pitch, collimation and strategies to reduce patient radiation were covered before the cardiovascular system was illustrated with detailed slides. It was […]

X-ray lead radiographer Di Hunter, radiographer Ritch Ahorro, acting imaging manager Laura McLennan, consultant radiologist Dr Sona Biswas and Canon Medical Systems account manager Jamile Siddiqui. Spire Gatwick Park Hospital has refurbished its x-ray room and installed a Canon Medical Systems Ultimax-i digital x-ray system.  The system is able to cover a wide range of […]

President of the BIR Dr Jane Phillips-Hughes congratulates Dr Dominik Benz. President of the BIR Dr Jane Phillips-Hughes presented a range of awards at the BIR annual congress in November. Dr Dominik Benz from University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, has been awarded the BJR/Jusha Early Career Investigator Award for his paper on ‘A low dose and […]

GE Healthcare imaging account manager Nicki Jones, consultant radiologists Dr Tim Pearce and Dr Grant Griffiths, radiographer Amber Harris, CT superintendent Helen Hennon, radiographers Rachel Palmer and Charles Mowbray with GE Healthcare product specialist Kim Owen. Royal Glamorgan Hospital has taken delivery of two GE Healthcare Revolution CT scanners designed to bring benefits across all […]

Director of nursing and clinical services Dr Lorraine Kelly, Canon Medical Systems account manager Colin Pellow, consultant radiologist Dr Nicholas Reading, imaging services manager/Aspen Group radiology lead Michele Fox, hospital director David Henderson, CT lead/MRI reporting radiographer Mayur Zaveri and Canon Medical Systems branch manager Simon Weeden. The Holly Private Hospital, Buckhurst Hill, has acquired a […]

From left are Philips Healthcare southern district general manager Steve Tomkins, DXR applications specialist Carla Nathan, projects manager Cath Sellwood (in front), commercial lead imaging systems Jane Robinson (behind), radiographers Rebecca Rex-Brown and Ruth Avery, Philips sales specialist, digital x-ray Seamus Flood (at the back), radiographers Jeremy Crumb, Michael Bourne, Ellie Spooner and Jennifer Walker […]