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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) has become the first site in the UK to install a fully integrated imaging platform, combining the breakthrough Naeotom Alpha photon-counting CT system from Siemens Healthineers with laser guided intervention software – two advanced technologies featuring a new type of high-resolution imaging with rapid acquisition times. Funded by the […]

Birmingham City Hospital purchased three Esaote systems in 2022, each equipped with the latest features. Clinical engineering manager Gary Howse has been keen to acquire the best ultrasound technology. Esaote’s MyLab X75 is a mid-range flagship system purchased for the labour ward, which will allow the unit to achieve good diagnostic image quality using the […]

In order to enhance the standard of cancer care delivered to its local population, especially with increased momentum of lung cancer screening programmes, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has invested in two AI-assisted CT scanners developed specifically for advanced radiation oncology. The UK’s first Aquilion Exceed LB CT from Canon Medical Systems UK, installed at […]

The breast screening department at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has added another five Vela mammography chairs to its existing fleet. Vela says that staff were so pleased to receive the new chairs they stopped their lunchbreak in order to help wheel them in. Specialist radiographer and lead mammographer Vickie Sanderson commented: “We just all […]

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a 10-year QA Pilot contract for its radiotherapy department including six linacs, brachytherapy, superficial, CT and contact rooms. Supplied by Oncology Imaging Systems (OIS), QA Pilot is a cloud-based, centralised software solution designed to make managing QA easier and to optimise workflow for faster organisation of data. “For […]

Alliance Medical services the phase one and part of phase two NHS England national PETCT contract and is continuing to add capacity to its UK-wide network of scanning sites. In September last year it opened a PETCT centre in Newcastle at the Freeman Hospital, which was followed in November by a modular centre at Norfolk […]

SPECTra, a modular radiopharmacy laboratory information management system (LIMS), has been chosen by four UK SPECT facilities. It has been designed to improve efficiency while maintaining regulatory compliance at all stages of the SPECT radiopharmacy production workflow. The Christie in Manchester was the first site in the UK to choose SPECTra as its LIMS software, […]

Clinical nurse specialist Rebecca Bentley, SRS lead radiographer Rachel Clements, consultant clinical oncologist Dr Luis Aznar-Garcia, IGRT lead radiographer Suzanne Jordan, SRS lead physicist Anna Bangiri and radiotherapy services manager Russell Hart. Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the first trust in the UK to have installed pioneering equipment to enable patients in the East Midlands […]