If you're having cardiac care with us, we'll book you an appointment to get the results of the scan within a few days. Otherwise we will send them swiftly to your NHS doctors. If anything out of the ordinary is found during the scan, we offer integrated medical care and can create ...
Planning scan: A planning scan will then be performed allowing the Radiographers to set up the main scan, at which time the contrast dye will be administered if required. The dye may lead you to feel warm and has been known to cause a metallic taste in the mouth during the length of th...
Biograph™ Horizon PET/CT nuclear medicine scanner. With intelligent imaging capabilities that help streamline scans, saving you time while offering reproducibility and standardization for advanced results.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB), part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, is the first in the world to implement a Symbia Pro.specta SPECT/CT from Siemens Healthineers, providing more patients access to a wider range of services. Equipped with specialised clinical t...
A cardiac computerized tomography (CT) scan – which can also be referred to as a coronary CT angiography or CT angiogram – is an imaging test to view the heart and blood vessels. It is a test that carries few risks and is less invasive than alternative procedures such as an angiogram....
Computed tomography (CT) in children poses unique problems that are not encountered in adults. The relative lack of visceral fat combined with patient motion results in degradation of image quality making the recognition of normal anatomical structures a
My interest in this program started when I was a teenager living abroad in the Dominican Republic and I had to get a CT-Scan for an injury. Despite being in discomfort and pain at the time, I remembered asking the technician a lot of questions about the equipment and how it worked and...
(oxygenation, LDH, and CRP) explaining the measurable but limited 0.03 increase of AUC obtained when adding CT-scan information to clinical variables. Here, we show that when comparing AI-severity with 11 existing severity scores, we find significantly improved prognosis performance; AI-severity can...
This expensive, time-consuming process21 hinders the development and adoption of deep learning models outside of large academic institutions. Recently, the self-configuring nnU-Net framework22 has shown promising results in abdominal organ segmentation. This framework systematically configured U-Nets on ...
This quality improvement project aimed to determine the feasibility of radiographer led lists to reduce waiting times for CTCA.Methods Patients attending CTCA lists on a Canon Genesis 320 slice scanner at New Cross Hospital, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust over 5 consecutive weeks between April to May...