radiopharmacy

Siemens Healthineers has announced a new radiopharmacy in Dunstable, UK. Designed as the UK’s first 8X radiopharmacy, the manufacturing facility will deliver output at eight times the capacity of a single radiopharma facility today. The £26 million investment is intended to bolster the long‑term supply of PET radiopharmaceuticals in the UK, supporting more consistent, reliable […]

SPECTra, a modular radiopharmacy laboratory information management system (LIMS), has been chosen by four UK SPECT facilities. It has been designed to improve efficiency while maintaining regulatory compliance at all stages of the SPECT radiopharmacy production workflow. The Christie in Manchester was the first site in the UK to choose SPECTra as its LIMS software, […]

Bartec Technologies and Raditech have installed a bespoke nuclear medicine dispensing workstation in the nuclear medicine department of Royal Liverpool University Hospital. The department required a dedicated dispensing preparation area at relatively short notice. Departmental manager Elaine Noonan said: “We recognised our service needed somewhere on site where we could draw radioactive material for our […]

Bartec Technologies, part of the LabLogic Group, is now UK representative for SPECTra, a purpose-built radiopharmacy laboratory information management system (LIMS), designed specifically to improve efficiency and compliance. SPECTra is based on LabLogic’s PET LIMS system, PETra.  Bartec says: “PETra has become the industry standard following successful installations in some of the world’s most prestigious […]

PhD student Alessandra Cavaliere from Cardiff School of Pharmacy and PETIC Centre receives her certificate of attendance for the Eckert and Ziegler Modular-Lab software summer school from Will Bryan, Elham Fakhri and Jeevan Virk of Imaging Equipment Limited (IEL). IEL sponsored Cavaliere to attend the summer school which is aimed at providing customers with further […]

At Bart’s new radiopharmacy are senior technician Ahmad Meeri, Skanska senior project manager Donnacha Carroll, radiopharmacy QA lead Russell Soanes, head of radiopharmacy Dr Neil Hartman, radiopharmacy technician Braveen Vigneswaran, Skanska operations manager Graham Ashley and radiopharmacy technician Tommy Balogun Skanska UK plc has designed and constructed a large new 169m2 radiopharmacy as part of […]

Smit BV president Gerben Smit, Alliance Medical Radiopharmacy general manager – north Ron Barrack, GE Healthcare director of strategic accounts Colin McConnell and Alliance Medical md, molecular imaging, Howard Marsh. Alliance Medical has upgraded its UK mobile scanner fleet with a GE Discovery 710 PETCT scanner, which it says is the first time this machine […]