A SECOND TOSHIBA CT SCANNER FOR YSBYTY MAELOR HOSPITAL

Ysbyty Maelor CT

 

Canon Medical Systems recently supplied an Aquilion PRIME 160-slice CT system to Ysbyty Maelor Hospital, Wrexham.

Ysbyty Maelor already has a Canon Aquilion ONE scanner, Neal Crimes, Superintendent Radiographer says, “It is no longer a luxury for a District General Hospitals to have two scanners; in fact, it is a necessity these days.”

The new equipment incorporates some of the latest clinical applications available, and the scanner at Ysbyty Maelor comes with an array of packages including cardiac software, and SURESubtraction software. The system is one of the first in the UK to be supplied with revolutionary new metal artefact reduction software, SEMARTM, which is Canon’s latest addition to its adaptive diagnostic suite of technologies. SEMARTM is a sophisticated, dose neutral, software package that is used to virtually eliminate the metal artefacts seen around dense metal objects such as hip prosthetics and dental amalgam.

SEMARTM is complementary to dose reduction technologies; it provides remarkable visualisation of implants, surrounding bone stock and soft tissues making it invaluable for a wide variety of previously challenging diagnostic scenarios.

Neal Crimes continues, “We have a longstanding relationship with Canon and we chose the Aquilion PRIME for our second scanner as it is compact with a small footprint. The equipment is extremely reliable; the installation went very smoothly and we also found the applications training excellent. The new software meets all our clinical needs, and we particularly like the new SEMAR package.”  

The Aquilion PRIME is an ideal CT system for imaging departments that need to perform a high volume and wide variety of examinations. The intuitive and streamlined workflow allows for rapid throughput, whilst maintaining clinical confidence.

 

Photo: 

Shown here, on the left-hand side of the couch, left to right Dr. Praveen Govind, Clinical Director Radiology; Matthew Soloman, National Service Manager and Graham King, Account Executive CT/MR/XR, both of Canon Medical Systems

On the right-hand side of the couch, on the left is Neal Crimes, CT Lead Radiographer and on the right is Stephan Roberts, Radiology Services Manager

 

 

Canon Medical Systems has a carbon-zero project in place.  We have calculated the carbon footprint for each of our products to include manufacturing, shipping, delivery and average hospital energy used for the standard lifetime of the equipment as follows:

CT equates to 12 stoves and 48,365 litres of water