Information Governance
Medical Directorate
NHS Grampian
Rosehill House
Foresterhill Site
Cornhill Road
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZG
BY EMAIL
Date 22 October 2021
Helen Martin
Our Ref
FOI/2021/619
request-795586-
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Dear Ms Martin
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
I refer to your e-mail dated 27 September 2021, requesting:
I would like to ask for your assistance with a query and would appreciate if you could
provide me with the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:
• Number of CT scanners owned or on loan by the Trust.
Could you please include make, model, age, capability and location.
• Number of Injector pumps currently associated with CT.
Could you please include make, model, age and location.
• The number of MRI scanners owned or on loan by the Trust.
Again could you please specify make, model, age, field strength and location.
• Number of injector pumps within MRI.
Could you please specify make, model, age and location.
• Number of injector pumps within the Cardiac Catheterisation suite.
Could you please specify make, model and age.
• Number of injector pumps with the Intervention Radiology suites
Could you specify the make, model and age.
• Does the Trust use a dose management software programme? If so, please specify the
programme and how long this has been in use
• Dose the Trust use a contrast media management programme? If so, please specify the
programme and how long this has been in use.
• Does the Trust utilise any AI software within radiology? If so, please could you specify the
programme and it’s application.
•Which Contrast Media agents are used within the Radiology department and for which
modality and procedures
I can now respond as follows:
I would like to ask for your assistance with a query and would appreciate if you
could provide me with the following information under the Freedom of Information
Act:
Number of CT scanners owned or on loan by the Trust.
Could you please include make, model, age, capability and location.
AND
Number of Injector pumps currently associated with CT.
Could you please include make, model, age and location.
Make
Model
Age
Capability
Location
GE
Discovery 750HD 10 years Not used for gated work
Yellow Zone
Medrad Stellant CT
Injector
10 years
Yellow Zone
Siemens Definition AS+
12 years No metal artefact reduction or
iterative reconstructions
Yellow Zone
Bracco EZEM CT Injector 12 years
Yellow Zone
GE
Optima 660
9 years Not used for gated work
Emergency
Department
Medrad Stellant CT
Emergency
Injector
9 years
Department
The number of MRI scanners owned or on loan by the Trust.
Again could you please specify make, model, age, field strength and location.
MRI West Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) : Siemens Avanto 1.5 T Opened Jan 2011
MRI Hutchison Woodend: Siemens Avanto 1.5 T Opened 2007
MRI Craig Woodend : GE Optima 450 Wide Bore Opened Dec 2016
ARI: Mobile van: Siemens Avanto In use since 2015. It is on site permanently working
7x12 hour days.
Number of injector pumps within MRI.
Could you please specify make, model, age and location.
We have 1 pump injector in each scanner. They are all the Medrad Spectris Solaris,
including the van.
Number of injector pumps within the Cardiac Catheterisation suite.
Could you please specify make, model and age.
Arterion Injector pump- 300778- Aug 2019.
Number of injector pumps with the Intervention Radiology suites
Could you specify the make, model and age.
Arterion Injector pump- 20172- Oct 2012
HP-D Acutron dual pump- Medtron- 006-AXA0062732- March 2020
Does the Trust use a dose management software programme? If so, please specify
the programme and how long this has been in use
We do not use a dose or contrast media management programme in IR or Cath Labs but
we have just installed Radsafe which gives real time visual prompts of radiation.
Dose the Trust use a contrast media management programme? If so, please specify
the programme and how long this has been in use.
Please see above response.
Does the Trust utilise any AI software within radiology? If so, please could you
specify the programme and it’s application.
No.
Which Contrast Media agents are used within the Radiology department and for
which modality and procedures
The contrast media used in CT is Omnipaque 350 and Iomeron 400 is used for cardiac CT
and bariatric patients.
The contrast media used in IR is Omnipaque 300 and Visipaque 320 and in the Cath Lab
we use Omnipaque 350.
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Yours sincerely
Roohi Bains
Information Governance Manager & Deputy DPO
NHS Grampian
