Magnetom Skyra

The official opening of a purpose-built MRI building at Kingston Hospital, Surrey, took place on November 5. This is the third phase in a 15-year contract awarded in 2017 to provide an exclusive, fully managed MRI service. With a brief to support Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in meeting the growing demand for MR imaging within […]

New business Future Medical Equipment reports that it has had a busy few months with the removal of a Siemens Healthineers Magnetom Area MRI scanner and a six and a half tonne Magnetom Skyra MRI scanner in July. Both MRIs were removed from Europe, brought to the Future Medical headquarters to be filled with helium, […]

Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee with LivingCare medical director Dr Stephen Feldman. Olympic triathletes Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee have helped NHS and private healthcare provider LivingCare Imaging to launch its multi-million pound imaging clinic, offereing MRI, digital x-ray and ultrasound scanning at Thorpe Park in Leeds.  It features a Magnetom Skyra 3.0T MRI scanner from Siemens […]

Insightec’s Maurice Ferre and Siemens Healthineers’ Christoph Zindel sign the contract. Specialist in MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) therapy Insightec is collaborating with Siemens Healthineers to develop compatibility between Exablate Neuro and Siemens’ 1.5T and 3.0T clinical MRI systems, the Magnetom Aera and Skyra. Both companies will work towards providing access to Exablate Neuro for current […]

Medical director David Emerton, consultant cardiologist Nic Child, Alliance Medical corporate services director Pete Winchester, clinical director Matthew Trewhella, chairman Paul Garvin and Steve Cram CBE. Former Olympic medallist and world champion middle distance runner Steve Cram CBE was on hand to help Alliance Medical and the University Hospital of North Tees to launch a state-of-the-art […]

Alliance Medical senior MRI radiographer Jennifer Croft and University Hospital of North Tees head of design Steven Taylor. University Hospital of North Tees has improved its diagnostic imaging services with the installation of an advanced cardiac-enabled MRI scanner, part of a £1.6m investment by Alliance Medical and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust. The […]

MRI clinical specialist radiographer Andrea Cradock and Siemens regional account manager Jane Scannell. Patients at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin are benefitting from a more comfortable imaging experience following the addition of a Magnetom Skyra 3.0T MR system from Siemens Healthcare.  Operating alongside a Magnetom Symphony Tim 1.5T, the 3.0T scanner images up to […]

Research assistant Helen McLeod and Institute for Medical Science and Technology director Professor Andreas Melzer. The University of Dundee Institute for Medical Science and Technology is the first site in the UK to install an Acuson Freestyle from Siemens Healthcare.  The company says the Freestyle is the first ultrasound system that has wireless, cable free […]