Charing Cross Hospital in West London, part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, has placed the first NHS order of the Magnetom Verio 3T MRI scanner. The new technology from Siemens Healthcare is the first of its kind for the NHS and also the first MRI to be purchased via the new NHS Supply Chain framework.
It can be used for neurology and functional neuro evaluation, orthopaedic and cartilage assessment, breast, vascular and cardiac imaging. The system is claimed to optimise parallel imaging, accelerate scan time and improve visualisation, as well as patient throughput.
