Siemens Healthcare of Erlangen, Germany, has installed its Artis zee cardiac angiography system and its Somatom Definition AS CT scanner at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust in the U.K.
The facility's new Heart Centre opened in June, Siemens said.
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