Eastman Kodak Health Imaging took advantage of the IRIA show to launch its DirectView CR 500, a new CR system that offers the image quality of the Rochester, NY-based company’s bigger DirectView systems but in a tabletop configuration.
The CR 500 is a single-plate system that captures x-ray images onto storage-phosphor plates and screens. Digital images are downloaded from the screens and image-processing algorithms are applied to create the final digital image, which can be produced in as quickly as 60 seconds.
The system has a throughput of 60 imaging plates an hour using 35 x 43-cm cassettes. It has onboard local storage of 1,500 images, and is available with either a 17-inch CRT monitor or a 15-inch flat-panel display.
The CR 500 is designed for smaller facilities that may be implementing CR for the first time, and its low cost and small size enables hospitals to install the system in clinics, intensive-care units, and other specialty areas, according to Mohan Nadkarni, vice president of Kodak Health Imaging Group in Mumbai.
The system uses the same interface and PTS image processing software as other DirectView CR systems, such as the CR 850 and CR 950. It also includes Kodak’s EVP software for advanced image processing, a remote operations panel, and support for the DICOM store-and-forward service class.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
March 12, 2004
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