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The nuclear medicine department at The Christie, Manchester recently achieved an important ‘first’.  Having invested in Bayer’s CT fluid delivery device Centargo, they are the first hospital in the country to connect Centargo to their scanner using an Injector Scanner Interface (ISI connection).  Consultant medical physicist and nuclear medicine group leader Dr Heather Williams explains […]

At November’s annual congress of The British Institute of Radiology in London, The BIR/Bayer Make it Better award was presented to specialist registrar in clinical radiology Dr Louis Dwyer-Hemmings from University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). The team designed and introduced a novel, short MRI protocol for the detection of joint inflammation that […]

Every day, a diverse patient population presents unique imaging challenges to CT departments all over the country. North Devon District Hospital’s CT department understand this and recently made the decision to upgrade their CT injector to Bayer’s Medrad Centargo to help face these challenges. Individualising protocols for every patient’s scan has in the past been […]

The BIR/Bayer Make it Better award has been given to Ruby Callister and team from St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for improving the patient imaging pathway of pelvic and acetabular fixation patients in terms of quality of imaging, patient radiation dose and patient comfort. The presentation took place at The British Institute of […]

Bayer is looking forward to seeing the radiology community again at this year’s UK Imaging and Oncology Congress in Liverpool. The theme at this year’s event touches on clinical excellence in a time of chaos and Bayer comments: “It has undoubtedly been a chaotic and complex time since we last got together at UKIO in […]

Ipswich Hospital were one of the eight trusts nationally that installed a brand new Bayer Medrad Centargo CT injection system during its controlled commercial release in 2020.  Emma Smith, CT lead radiographer explains their early experience: “As a department our experience with Centargo has been exceptional from the very start. Having the opportunity to change […]

“At the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital we have a long-standing working relationship with Bayer for contrast injectors. We have always been very impressed with the reliability of the equipment and the standard of after sales service and support. We are very excited to embrace multi-dosing technology as we appreciate the advantages of tailoring contrast […]

Radiotherapy is a highly effective local anti-cancer treatment delivered to around 50-60 per cent of cancer patients.  Installation of the Bayer-Medrad contrast injector on The Christie’s Unity MR linear accelerator (believed to be a world first) will allow the radiotherapy team to administer contrast agent to aid in tumour and organ at risk (OAR) visualisation […]