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Study course outlined clinical and research applications of PET MR imaging technology

Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury, part of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, has installed an Artis zeeTM Multi-purpose (MP) interventional imaging system from Siemens Healthcare. The system is being used for vascular and interventional work, including stent insertions, joint injections and embolisations. The hospital is benefitting from reference overlay, allowing the precise positioning of stents or interventional devices such as inferior vena cava (IVC) filters.

St. James’s Institute of Oncology, part of St. James’s University Hospital in Leeds affectionately known as ‘Jimmy’s’, has recently installed a MAGNETOM® Aera 1.5 Tesla MRI system from Siemens Healthcare.

Spire Little Aston, of the Spire Healthcare Group, in Sutton Coldfield has installed a MAGNETOM® Aera 1.5T MR system from Siemens Healthcare. The hospital is now using the system, which replaces a previous generation Siemens MAGNETOM Symphony, for a wide range of MR imaging including neurological, orthopaedic, routine abdominal and cardiac services.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) has selected Siemens Healthcare to manage a 13-year Imaging Infrastructure Support Service (IISS) partnership. The partnership demonstrates the Trust’s long-term commitment to the Imaging Department in providing excellent levels of patient care using the latest diagnostic equipment. Based on the MES concept, the IISS contract is expected to add additional capacity, allowing the Trust to improve throughput and diagnose and treat increasing numbers of patients.

AXrEM, the Association of Healthcare Technology Providers for Imaging, Radiotherapy & Care, which represents all major medical imaging manufacturers active in the UK, recently published a statement highlighting its concern about the potential impact of inappropriate deployment of Framework Agreements. These are an alternative procurement channel to full EU procurement competition. Siemens Healthcare today announced its support of AXrEM’s concerns and added to its calls for a transparent and competitive market landscape.

Siemens Healthcare has introduced the new version (VA20) of its routine 3D and advanced reading software syngo®.via, at the 98th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2012 in Chicago. This new version features expanded mobile applications as well as enhanced functionality and additional applications.

MAGNETOM Prisma from Siemens Healthcare designed to explore new frontiers in MRI

Siemens Healthcare has developed a revolutionary new X-ray tube and detector technology for its Artis Q and Artis Q.zen angiography systems to improve minimally invasive therapy of diseases such as coronary artery disease, stroke and cancer. In both the Artis Q and Artis Q.zen series, the new X-ray tube with unique flat emitter technology can help to identify small vessels up to 70 percent better than conventional filament X-ray tube technology.

Mobile MAGNETOM Avanto from Siemens Healthcare delivers high quality, rapid imagingservices to NHS and private patients across the UK

Musgrove Park Hospital, part of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, has installed a SOMATOM® Definition Flash CT system from Siemens Healthcare. The hospital, announced as a regional trauma centre in 2012, is using the system to support its cardiology services, in addition to providing oncology, vascular and general trauma imaging. The Definition Flash is assisting departmental workflow thanks to its rapid imaging times, currently enabling around 250 patients to be scanned weekly.

Siemens Healthcare joined a number of societies from all over the world at the first International Day of Radiology in London to highlight the role played by radiology and radiologists in the UK and abroad. Siemens Healthcare demonstrated the latest advancements in PET-CT and SPECT-CT imaging using syngo®.via, highlighting the evolution of medical imaging technology and its ongoing medical and scientific benefits.