Edinburgh

Fast scans improve Lothian’s paediatric imaging

NHS Lothian’s Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh fully opened earlier this year, providing state-of-the-art facilities and equipment for patients and families. At the heart of a new diagnostic imaging strategy is a CT scanner from Canon Medical Systems that will speed up procedures and lower dose for paediatric patients. The Aquilion […]

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Course covers top-to-toe CT angiography

One hundred radiographers and students attended a CT conference in Edinburgh in November. This was the first joint MDCT and CT/ MRI Safety Matters CT Angiography event in the UK. CT physics including resolution, pitch, collimation and strategies to reduce patient radiation were covered before the cardiovascular system was illustrated with detailed slides. It was […]

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Queen Margaret University awards student prize for diagnostic radiography

Therapeutic radiography student Heather Hay was awarded the 2018 Fujifilm Medical Systems Award for Academic Excellence at the Queen Margaret University graduation ceremony.  Sponsored by Fujifilm for several years, the prize is awarded to the student with the best grades across the radiography programme, which includes diagnostic and therapeutic radiography students. “It is a delight […]

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First multi-modality British Cardiovascular Imaging Meeting

Young Investigator Award presenter Dr Rachael Forsythe with BSCI/BSCCT president Dr Giles Roditi. In early May, Edinburgh played host to the first multi-modality British Cardiovascular Imaging Meeting. It was organised through a collaboration of three of the UK’s cross-sectional cardiovascular imaging societies, the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging/British Society of Cardiac Computed Tomography, British Society […]

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Western General Hospital acquires flat panel C-arm

Philips UKI imaging account manager Louise Jones, Scottish Lithotriptor Centre lead radiographer Carol Ann Stephenson, Philips UKI interventional product specialist, mobile surgery, Simon Bunce and Scottish Lithotriptor Centre specialist radiographer Shirley Wallace. Western General Hospital in Edinburgh has purchased a Philips Veradius Neo mobile C-arm for use in emergency theatre procedures.  Lead radiographer/PACS manager/clinical radiology Peter O’Byrne […]

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Western General reduces dose

Jamie Douglas of the medical physics department, Philips UKI IGT sales specialist Simon Wilsdon, account manager for imaging systems, Scotland, Louise Jones, consultant radiologist Dr Simon Jackson and lead radiographer/PACS manager/clinical radiology Peter O’Byrne. Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, has received an AlluraClarity FD20 from Philips UKI, with XperCT software and FlexVision XL screen.  The system […]

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Western General receives contrast injector

Synapse Medical UK clinical applications specialist Gabriel Araoz Zapata with senior radiographers Lynsey Thom, Louise Vesco, Ash Phelan, Andrew Hope and Keith Foulner. Western General Hospital in Edinburgh has received an Ulrich CT Motion injector from Synapse Medical UK.  The injector provides 10 second patient turnaround times and Synapse says feedback from customers has been […]

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