paediatric

In 2015, Sergio and Emma Petrucci faced every parent’s worst nightmare when their daughter Luna needed heart surgery just before her second birthday. Luna, now nine, was diagnosed with two holes in her heart during a routine check-up and…
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The precision of paediatric fluoroscopy examinations at Leeds Children’s Hospital has been enhanced by the installation of a multidirectional C-arm from Canon Medical Systems. The Ultimax-i replaced an end-of-life system from a different…
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University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust has updated three Esaote ultrasound systems with the new MyLab X75 and its high frequency transducers, which are said to deliver outstanding image quality and Doppler sensitivity, as well…
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Making children feel more at ease in medical facilities is the aim of Fujifilm’s ‘Little Lucy’ initiative, which launched across Europe to mark International Childhood Cancer Day in February. The project draws attention to the experiences…
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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…
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Whipps Cross Hospital, London, has acquired a Philips Incisive CT system in order to develop paediatric and cardiac imaging. The scanner comes with a ‘tube for life’ guarantee, which means that if the tube fails over the life of the…
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Spectrum Dynamics Medical’s Veriton-CT digital SPECT/CT system with personalised scans has been chosen for a paediatric programme by Vizient Inc, a member-driven healthcare performance improvement company in the USA. The 3D digital…
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The department of clinical neurosciences and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People at NHS Lothian have selected Canon Medical’s Aquilion One Genesis Edition CT scanner to support routine and research imaging services. The systems…
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Royal Philips has released an ultrasound solution for paediatric assessment, the latest addition for its Epiq Elite ultrasound system. The new solution is said to provide clinicians with exceptionally detailed images and the performance…
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Canon Medical Systems UK is supporting University of Exeter research by co-funding a PhD studentship to research cardiac function and health and fitness in children with paediatric congenital heart disease. The aim of the project is to…
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