cardiac

Blackpool Victoria Hospital has installed Canon Medical’s Aquilion One/Insight Edition with the Instinx platform to help diagnose and treat patients with heart or circulatory disease. The hospital scans around 4,500 patients a month, including over 50 cardiac patients weekly. The Aquilion One/Insight Edition improves image quality, optimises workflow and enables Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation […]

New technology rolled out at Spire South Bank Hospital, Worcester, has led the provider to become one of the only private hospitals in the region to offer private cardiac MRI scans, allowing patients requiring specialist cardiac imaging rapid access to diagnosis and further treatment. Imaging manager Sarah Barker said: “We have been so excited to […]

As a trusted leader in diagnostic imaging, Probo Medical supplies hundreds of pieces of equipment and parts every week. “While we may not always see the full extent of each equipment’s impact, stories like this empowers us to keep doing what we do everyday.” The Leeds Congenital Heart Unit, supported by the Children’s Heart Surgery […]

Over the past year, Compleo Health has expanded its diagnostic imaging services to include specialised cardiac MRI scans, starting with a single site and now extending to multiple locations across the UK. This growth has allowed us to broaden our expertise, including advanced scanning for patients with pacemakers and other MRI-conditional cardiac devices. Our expansion […]

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 […]

St Mary’s Hospital, part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London, has four GE HealthCare MRI systems in its acute department, which accommodate a range of diagnostic examinations including cardiac MRI. In January 2024, St Mary’s became the first UK site to install the latest AI for cardiac imaging, Sonic DL. Similar to AIR […]

The cardiac CT scanning team at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has won an award for image quality from medical technology company HeartFlow. This is due to a number of improvements made by collaborative working between the cardiology and radiology teams. Diagnostic services lead Gail Griffiths said: “Our teams work closely together so […]

In September the sixth biannual St Joseph’s Hospital Cardiac MRI course for radiographers took place at The Parkway Hotel and Spa, Cwmbran. On day one the  course was attended by 16 delegates from across Wales and England, as well as one delegate travelling from Dundee and another from Cork. The faculty members, who together have […]