PETCT

Alliance Medical has launched what is said to be the UK’s first fully integrated PETCT within a community diagnostic centre (CDC) at Oldham. This milestone aims to enhance diagnostic imaging and inspire further integration of PETCT services across the UK’s CDCs. The goal is to provide quicker diagnoses, better treatment plans and reduce the pressures […]

Ten thousand patients a year in Greater Manchester are expected to benefit from a new digital PETCT scanner that has officially opened in Oldham. Alliance Medical says this is the UK’s first community diagnostic centre (CDC) to have a permanent PETCT facility on site. Alliance Medical managing director Pete Winchester welcomed chair of NHS Greater […]

University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) is piloting the Xeos Aura 10, a mobile unit that brings high-resolution molecular imaging directly to theatres for the first time. Distributed and supported by Southern Scientific in the UK, it is designed to reduce the need for further surgery or salvage radiotherapies, allowing surgeons to assess tumour margins in […]

MIS Healthcare, a leading UK-based distributor of advanced medical imaging technologies, is excited to participate in RSNA 2024, representing a portfolio of world-class manufacturers. With a commitment to innovation and excellence, MIS Healthcare will highlight the latest imaging solutions from its trusted partners. At this year’s event, attendees will experience the power of Samsung’s state-of-the-art […]

Paul Strickland Scanner Centre has halved PETCT scan times using a new Biograph Vision 600 from Siemens Healthineers, achieving with one system what previously required two. The upgrade by the medical charity, which was made possible through donations, will primarily support increasing referrals for oncology patients and in the future could encompass neurology, such as […]

Research and treatment for cancer, dementia and heart disease is set to take a step forward after the handover of a £9 million molecular imaging facility at Castle Hill Hospital in East Yorkshire. At a ceremony to mark the occasion, renowned cancer research expert and chair of Radiotherapy UK Professor Pat Price said the significance […]

The nuclear medicine department at The Christie, Manchester recently achieved an important ‘first’.  Having invested in Bayer’s CT fluid delivery device Centargo, they are the first hospital in the country to connect Centargo to their scanner using an Injector Scanner Interface (ISI connection).  Consultant medical physicist and nuclear medicine group leader Dr Heather Williams explains […]

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 […]