Royal Free Hospital

A suite of state-of-the art imaging equipment has been installed at the Royal Free Hospital, London, which will help deliver more accurate diagnoses and detect disease earlier for patients. The upgrades include three x-ray machines, three CT systems and one MRI system, which feature the latest advances in imaging technology. The new equipment provides higher […]

A physicist at the Royal Free Hospital, London, has been awarded a £236,000 grant to carry out research using a PET scanner that creates a 3D picture of the whole body in one scan, allowing doctors to see how tumours and organs are functioning. Diagnostic nuclear medicine and PETCT physics lead Dr Beverley Holman received […]

The Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s Heart Attack Centre has become the first in England to install the Artis icono floor from Siemens Healthineers. The addition of the multi-axis floor angiography system is part of a project to improve imaging quality at the trust, allowing more confident diagnoses and optimising clinical workflows. The Heart […]

The spring meeting of the British Nuclear Medicine Society was not the event that most of us were expecting; however, given the events of last year we have become used to planning for such changes. The meeting was due to be held in Belfast but because of COVID-19 restrictions the decision was made to hold […]

Lead nuclear medicine technologist David Hutt with AGB’s Phil Facey. The National Amyloidosis Centre at the Royal Free Hospital has become a new customer of Ashby Gorman Baker (AGB). The centre has provided a diagnostic, staging, monitoring and management advisory service for the national caseload of patients with amyloidosis since it was commissioned by the […]

Bayer’s Andreas Ackermann, with Dr Sam Hare, Dr Aniket Tavare and BIR chief executive Jacqueline Fowler. A team that has developed a new system to accelerate and improve early diagnosis of lung cancer, a first for the UK, has won the BIR/Bayer Make it Better Award which was presented at UKRC in Liverpool. Dr Sam Hare […]

Pictured at the Royal Free Hospital are head of nuclear medicine physics Daniel McCool, Imaging Equipment Limited sales consultant Richard Welsh, chief nuclear medicine technologist Amy Pritchard, PET/CT lead technologist Firdousa Hassan and Tema Synergie European sales manager Lorenzo Mattioli. Royal Free Hospital, London, has installed a Tema Synergie Karl 100 PET infusion system in […]

Receiving training on the Aplio 500 from Toshiba clinical applications specialist Jane Hanford is vascular scientist Mr Ved Ramnani. The Royal Free Hospital London NHS Foundation Trust has purchased a Toshiba Aplio 500 ultrasound system for its vascular imaging department. Along with its image quality, the Aplio 500 was selected by the hospital for its […]