Royal United Hospital

The Royal United Hospitals Bath (RUH) NHS Foundation Trust has received two Zenition 70 C-arm systems from Philips. Specialist radiographer Andrew Setchell said: “The Zenition 70s are reliable, robust, user-friendly and make training other colleagues easy. The two units enable us to support urology and orthopaedic theatre cases. “We particularly like the touch screen image […]

Royal United Bath NHS trust continues to improve its ultrasound service by replacing their existing automated HLD systems with the Germitec Chronos. Ever since the first trial of the machine, the team have been extremely impressed with the machine’s speed, simplicity and reliability as well as the support received from the Germitec UK team. The […]

In 2007, Spectrum Dynamics introduced D-SPECT, which it says was the first cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) cardiac SPECT scanner. The Veriton-CT system was introduced in 2017 for total body nuclear CZT SPECT/CT, with a 360° ring-shaped gantry and 12 swivelling CZT solid state detectors. Royal United Hospital, Bath, consultant radiologist and clinical lead for nuclear […]

Royal United Hospital in Bath has installed the UK’s first Veriton-CT system, according to supplier Link Medical. Consultant radiologist Dr Stewart Redman said: “The nuclear medicine department has two gamma cameras and performs around 4,500 examinations a year. We are replacing the older gamma camera with a Veriton-CT system as we feel this is the […]

Royal United Hospital, Bath, has placed the first order of a Spectrum Dynamics Veriton-CT solid state SPECT/CT system. Supplier Link Medical’s ceo Peter Dobson said: “We would like to thank the radiology team of Dr Richard Graham, Dr David Little and Dr Stewart Redman for their support, together with Martyn Evans and the team in […]

The ultrasound team at Royal United Hospital, Bath needed to replace one of its existing ultrasound systems and called on NHS Supply Chain to help manage procurement of a new unit. Patients had already had positive experiences of MIS Healthcare and Samsung ultrasound equipment, with two Samsung radiology systems in the breast department. The team […]

The Royal United Hospital Breast Unit in Bath, offers a symptomatic service and a specialist family history service. With its two mammography systems due for replacement, the team chose the 3Dimensions mammography system with Hologic 3D Mammography technology on both. Superintendent mammographer Alison Smith said: “Our priority was to source a system that offers high […]

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (RUH) has chosen the Fujifilm Visionary Suite for one of its emergency department x-ray rooms, following a full evaluation and tender process. The hospital was already familiar with the image quality and service that Fujifilm provides, as it currently uses Fujifilm PACS and CR and has three FDR […]