Royal Brompton Hospital

Royal Brompton Hospital has become London’s first hospital to install a Spectrum Dynamics Veriton-CT whole-body scanner, featuring 360° CZT ring SPECT technology. The scanner is said to deliver superior sensitivity and energy resolution compared to traditional gamma cameras. “As one of the UK’s largest heart and lung centres, in partnership with Harefield Hospital, this technology […]

Royal Brompton Hospital in London, part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, has marked two decades of partnership with Siemens Healthineers with the first UK installation of a Magnetom Cima.X MRI system. The system enables novel heart scanning techniques using diffusion-weighted imaging. One objective of the team’s cardiac diffusion imaging research is to […]

Royal Brompton Hospital in London, part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, has marked two decades of partnership with Siemens Healthineers with the first UK installation of a Magnetom Cima.X MRI system. The system enables novel heart scanning techniques using diffusion-weighted imaging. One objective of the team’s cardiac diffusion imaging research is to […]

General manager Zohreh Palmer, head of imaging Dean Booth, lead CT imaging Nina Arcuri, senior PET imaging Estevao Bagi and senior cardiac CT Lucy Berry. Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals (RB&HH) Specialist Care has opened a new private outpatient and diagnostic facility at 77 Wimpole Street in central London.  It follows a recent inspection and […]

Consultant anaesthetist Dr David Alexander, cardiac catheter laboratory and theatre manager Karen Shevlin, charge nurse Paul Sciberras, senior radiographer Dave Rowlands and superintendent radiographer Lindsey Morton. Royal Brompton Hospital, part of Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, has expanded its capability within its cardiac catheter lab by opening a state-of-the-art hybrid operating theatre for […]

Radiology services manager Christine Peacock, radiographer Natalie Gartland, superintendent CT radiographer Trupti Patel and deputy CT superintendent radiographer Sally Copperwaite. Royal Brompton Hospital, London, has improved its CT scanning facilities with the installation of a Somatom Definition Edge CT scanner from Siemens Healthcare. Radiology services manager Christine Peacock said: “The scanner is already meeting our […]

Pictured in the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London with a GE Healthcare Logiq e portable ultrasound system are consultant paediatric intensivist Dr Sandra Gala-Peralta, GE Healthcare point-of-care ultrasound sales specialist Corne Swart and a clinical fellow Dr Nirmala Chakkalakal. This is the first newly-developed Logiq e to be […]

Xograph Healthcare territory manager Iain Burley with senior radiographers Anna Mungate and Vickie Haire and superintendent radiographer Richard Eato. Independent medical imaging supplier Xograph Healthcare has delivered and commissioned a Ziehm Vision mobile C-arm x-ray image intensifier at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. Superintendent radiographer Richard Eato said: “Having the C-arm mounted […]