Aquilion Prime SP

CT scanner at Spire Parkway to speed up diagnoses for private and NHS patients

More NHS and private patients will be scanned more quickly following delivery of a Canon Medical Systems Aquilion Prime SP CT scanner at Spire Parkway Hospital in Solihull. The £600,000 investment will provide more rapid diagnoses for more patients than previously possible, helping reduce the region’s diagnostic waiting lists. Using the latest AI technology, the […]

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NHS Western Isles addresses NHS Scotland’s Climate Strategy with Canon Medical’s Support

100 per cent reduction in patient referrals for scanning elsewhere due to pioneering and multi award-winning radiographer-led cardiac CT service Reduction in engineer call-outs with remote access servicing via Canon Medical’s InnerVision NHS Western Isles (which is part of NHS Scotland) has collaborated with long-standing partner, Canon Medical Systems UK, to help ‘reduce the need […]

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Cannock’s CDC scans its first patients

The first patients have been scanned at the £15 million radiology facility at Cannock’s Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC). The purpose-built modular building is part of The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and hosts the first of four scanners: two CT and two MRI systems costing around £1 million each. The facility will employ 70 new staff […]

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CDC expands medical imaging services in Barnsley Town Centre

Since April 2022, Barnsley’s population has benefitted from more accessible diagnostic testing via the community diagnostic centre (CDC) situated in the Glass Works shopping centre. Developed by Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, in collaboration with Barnsley Facilities Services (BFS), the CDC provides testing and screening services including phlebotomy, non-obstetric ultrasound diagnostics, breast screening, plain film […]

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Improving patient pathways and outcomes

When a community diagnostic centre rented not one but two rental solutions for their facility. Some time ago, AGITO Medical delivered a CT relocatable rental unit to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in the United Kingdom. AGITO delivered one of its brand-new units featuring a state-of-the-art Aquilion Prime SP 160 slice system. This rental […]

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CDC model delivers front-line CT capacity for Victoria Infirmary

Victoria Infirmary community diagnostic centre (CDC) in Northwich has enabled more patients in Cheshire to be seen for quick front-line diagnostic imaging, reducing waiting times and freeing up pressure on other acute hospital scanners. In less than a year, thousands more patients have attended for CT scans and other tests, reducing the need for multiple […]

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CT scanners at University Hospital Crosshouse provide cardiac and stroke imaging closer to home

University Hospital Crosshouse, a district general hospital with an emergency department serving east and north Ayrshire in Scotland, has installed two AI-assisted CT scanners in its medical imaging department to enhance diagnostic imaging services. The Aquilion Prime SP CT systems from Canon Medical Systems UK replace eight-year-old scanners and will be instrumental in remobilising COVID-19 […]

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