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Routine monitoring of player health and specialist sports medicine research projects at Manchester United Football Club have received a boost with the introduction of a Vantage Galan 3.0T MRI from Canon Medical Systems UK. The system has taken its place in the club’s imaging centre at the Old Trafford training ground alongside CT and ultrasound […]

Hundreds of delegates from global sporting organisations joined clinical experts and industry innovators at the 28th Isokinetic Medical Group Conference to share best practice, in a bid to improve elite athletic performance and health. The conference took place at Wembley Stadium under the title ‘Football medicine meets the universe of sport.’ Workshop sessions were held […]

Canon Medical’s Aquilion One at the Aon Training Complex Medical Centre, with players Juan Mata, Scott McTominay and Marcus Rashford. Manchester United Football Club has renewed its multi-year agreement with Canon Medical Systems Europe as its official partner. Signed six years ago the agreement included the installation of top-of-the-range imaging modalities including CT, MRI and […]

Chief operating officer at The Imaging Centre Richard Bartlett, Barnet Football Club chairman and ceo of The Imaging Centre Tony Kleanthous, olympic athlete and sports ambassador Tessa Sanderson CBE, Canon Medical Systems UK managing director Mark Hitchman, and director of commercial solutions Ian Watson. A first of its kind £5m imaging centre in North London […]

Senior MRI radiographer at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Kumaar Thiagarajan and senior radiographer at Vista Diagnostics InHealth, London, Shyam Bheemreddy won a quiz and received FC Barcelona shirts as a prize. Canon Medical Systems returned to FC Barcelona for its two-day MRI users meeting. With a full agenda, participants commented on the informative, well […]

Team RUMS. Imaging Equipment Limited sponsored the Royal Free, University College and Middlesex Medical Students Women’s Football Team (RUMS WFC) in the annual National Association of Medical Schools Football Tournament, held earlier this year. Team captain Lema Imam thanked IEL for its sponsorship: “We wouldn’t have been able to take part in the tournament if […]

Pictured trying out the TrueBeam couch are Tottenham Hotspurs’ Ledley King and Mousa Dembélé. Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, NHS England and North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust have teamed up to launch a TrueBeam linear accelerator from Varian Medical Systems. Spurs’ Belgian international midfielder Mousa Dembélé and club ambassador Ledley King helped NMUH chair John […]

Nuffield Health Bournemouth Hospital director David McNair, AFC Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe, Alliance Medical md Keith Search, clinical assistant Fiona Higgins, radiology manager Marie Helps, consultant radiologist Dr Jeremy Small, MRI unit manager Penny Wilkins and AFC Bournemouth footballers Shaun Macdonald and Josh McQuoid. AFC Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe helped Nuffield Health Bournemouth unveil the […]