Cork

Bon Secours Hospital, Cork, has installed a DR 600 digital x-ray room from Agfa Radiology Solutions. The complete and integrated ceiling-suspended system replaces an analogue x-ray unit in the radiology department. In addition, the hospital has purchased two DR 100s motorised mobile units to be used for out-of-department imaging. The hospital is part of the […]

Pictured during handover and training for a Hitachi Preirus ultrasound scanner at Bantry General Hospital, Cork, are Hitachi Medical Systems applications specialist Marie Lyons and sonographer Ruth O’Driscoll. As part of the Irish HSE’s Framework Agreement, Hitachi and RSL Medical were awarded sole supplier status for all high-end radiology ultrasound equipment for the term of […]

X-ray nurse Eithne O’Mahony, clinical specialist radiographer Madeline Foley, lead interventional radiologist Dr Adrian Brady, Siemens Healthcare regional account manager Helen Calvey, applications specialist Ian Taylor and Siemens customer service account manager Pat O’Donnell at the Mercy University Hospital, Cork.   Mercy University Hospital Cork has boosted its imaging facilities with the installation of an […]

At Cork University Hospital are radiographers Tom O Regan and Sylvia Lynch Sexton, clinical specialist Raj Chopra and Xograph Healthcare Ireland territory business manager Michael Leonard.   Cork University Hospital radiology department has taken delivery of a Ziehm Solo fluoroscopy C-arm, supplied by Xograph Healthcare Ireland, for the hospital’s new cardiac renal centre.  The Ziehm […]

Consultant radiologist Dr Simon Blake with GE Healthcare CT sales specialist Jane Hickey, business development manager Antoin McColgan and radiology services manager Ciaran Walsh.   South Infirmary Hospital Cork, Ireland, has become one of the first medical sites in Europe to install GE Healthcare’s new Optima 660 CT scanner that provides improved clarity and lower […]

Head of Siemens Healthcare Ireland Kevin Dand with Sheehan Medical chief executive James Sheehan Jnr and Sheehan Medical chairman Dr Joseph Sheehan.   Cork is about to get Ireland’s most high tech hospital following an announcement by Irish private hospital operator, Sheehan Medical that Siemens will deliver the latest medical diagnostic technology for their new […]

Pictured at a new breast imaging unit in the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork on the handover of a new GE Healthcare Logiq E9 ultrasound system supplied by MDI Medical are (from left) MDI Medical clinical applications specialist Rita McKenna, Bon Secours consultant radiologist Dr Val Moran and clinical specialist sonographer Geraldine Murray, MDI Medical […]

Dr Fionnuala O’Connell with a piXarray.   The histopathology department at Cork University Hospital has taken delivery of a Bioptics piXarray digital specimen radiography system.  It is being used to image specimens, including core biopsies, paraffin blocks, excision biopsies, wide local excision specimens and mastectomy specimens.    Consultant pathologist Dr Fionnuala O’Connell explains: “Our ability […]