Biograph Vision Quadra

The University of Cambridge will be the next site to install a total body PET scanner, further expanding the National PET Imaging Platform (NPIP) network. It is expected to be operational by the end of 2026. The scanner will be located at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and has been funded through a £5.5m investment from the UKRI […]

King’s College London is the first centres in the UK to benefit from having two Biograph Vision Quadra PETCT systems from Siemens Healthineers. This is expected to increase quality of care for patients while also enabling King’s to conduct radiopharmaceutical, basic science and clinical research. As part of the UK’s National PET Imaging Platform (NPIP), […]

A physicist at the Royal Free Hospital, London, has been awarded a £236,000 grant to carry out research using a PET scanner that creates a 3D picture of the whole body in one scan, allowing doctors to see how tumours and organs are functioning. Diagnostic nuclear medicine and PETCT physics lead Dr Beverley Holman received […]

A partnership between the Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC), the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Innovate UK will deliver scientific breakthroughs with the launch of a national total body PET imaging platform to drive drug discovery. The National PET Imaging Platform (NPIP) will deploy total body PET in Scotland and London, bringing together transformational research from […]

During the virtual annual congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine in October Siemens Healthineers introduced the Biograph Vision Quadra, a CE-marked PETCT system designed for clinical use as well as translational research. In addition to the 3.2mm silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) detector technology and time of flight performance that are cornerstones of the established […]