Strengthening safety in the MRI room

A new MRI and CT scanning unit at Winchester's Royal Hampshire County Hospital, run by the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has been officially opened by the city's MP, Steven Brine, having been completed in February by Brymor Contractors, under advice from TKL Architects, to replace a former imaging facility badly damaged by a fire in December 2011. As HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports, the new building features a head and whole body HD imaging CT scanner from GE, and a 1.5 T Philips Ingenia MRI scanner, as well as Ferroguard ferromagnetic detection equipment from Metrasens designed to 'screen' individuals about to enter the MRI scanning room for ferrous objects.