C-RAD

Following several UK installations of the C-RAD Catalyst+ HD SGRT system, Vertec Scientific and C-RAD have increased support infrastructure for their UK customers. Ross Lethbridge joins the C-RAD team as national sales manager for UK and Ireland, bringing a wealth of experience to boost sales support. Vertec’s Jenni Cook has a long career as a […]

Singleton Hospital in Swansea has acquired a second Philips Big Bore RT scanner with improved 4DCT reconstruction times that help improve the imaging department’s clinical workflow. Radiographers will no longer need to wait until the end of the day to reconstruct a 4DCT scan. Linked to Philips’ Pinnacle3 RT planning system, the system facilitates the […]

Having recently installed an Elekta Versa HD linear accelerator, Singleton Hospital in Swansea is planning on using the C-RAD surface image guided radiation therapy (SIGRT system), supplied by Vertec Scientific, for patients receiving breast radiotherapy treatment when the machine goes live in spring. SIGRT is a technique that helps to deliver highly accurate radiotherapy treatments. […]

Radiotherapy teams from Singleton Hospital in Swansea and St James’s University Hospital in Leeds performed a fact-finding tour of the radiotherapy department at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesborough. Pictured are RT radiographer Julie Wood, RT physicist Dr Steve Weston, RT technical research radiographer Peter Enever and RT engineer Chris Forrest all of St James’s, […]

The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough has installed a C-RAD Catalyst HD optical patient monitoring system in its radiotherapy department. Pictured during applications training are C-RAD applications specialists Beatrice Akrinrimisi and Peter Hundlinger with James Cook medical physics expert Andrew Greenhalgh, Vertec Scientific product specialist Michael Davis, therapeutic radiographer Sophie Burns, student therapeutic radiographer […]

Vertec Scientific is to distribute Cyrpa laser products in the UK. Established in 2010, Cyrpa is a wholly-owned subsidiary of C-RAD AB. Based in Brussels and Roissy, the company develops non-invasive lasers used for patient positioning in radiotherapy. The laser systems are currently distributed around the world and more than 400 have been installed in […]

Specialists from Vertec Scientific attended the ESTRO 38 congress in Milan and took the opportunity to discuss latest updates and future trends with delegates. Among its key partners are Canada-based CDR Systems, with a range of innovative patient positioning systems, and Sweden’s C-RAD with the Catalyst patient positioning monitoring system. The company says its reputation […]

Vertec product specialist Michael Davis, technical development lead radiographer Paul Bartley, head of radiotherapy physics Keven Burke, radiographer Laura Appleby, lead physicist for Q&A and imaging Andrew Greenhalgh and C-Rad global sales manager west Kent Obrink. James Cook University Hospital has installed a C-Rad Catalyst patient position monitoring system supplied by Vertec Scientific in its […]