Canon Medical Systems highlighted a new flat-panel digital radiography cassette in its booth at last month's RSNA meeting in Chicago. Other Canon highlights included a new digital radiography option for emergency-room applications and new storage options for the Irvine, CA, company’s PACS product line.
CXDI-31 consists of a 9 x 11-inch flat-panel detector that weighs just 6.2 pounds, and includes none of the supporting equipment, such as tube stands and gantries, found on other digital x-ray systems. A 10-meter cable attached to the detector transfers images to a PACS or image review workstation.
Due to the detector’s compact size, users have great flexibility in being able to position the detector in areas hard to reach with conventional fixed systems, according to Roger Boots, regional sales manager for Canon’s western region.
The panel also has better image quality than a conventional digital radiography panel, which is necessary for detailed extremity work. CXDI-31’s resolution stands at 100 microns, compared to 160 microns for a standard DR plate.
Canon believes the product would be used as a second or third plate in an existing digital radiography room to add additional versatility to the system, Boots said. The detector should sell for around $85,000, and 510(k) clearance is pending.
Canon also highlighted a new emergency-room version of its DR product line. The system includes a gray-scale diagnostic-quality monitor, attached to the DR quality control station, that enables ER physicians to quickly review images immediately after exposure.
On the PACS side, Canon has added two new archiving options to its software. The company has made available fibre-channel RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) and SAN (storage area network) technologies to its users.Canon has teamed with archiving provider Rorke Data of Eden Prairie, MN, to deliver the technologies.
Canon has also added brokerless bidirectional communication between the company’s PACS and RIS software made by IDX Systems of Burlington, VT.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersDecember 14, 2001
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