VIENNA - French x-ray component supplier Thomson Tubes Electroniques has a new corporate identity -- Thales Electron Devices. The company unveiled its new face at this week’s European Congress of Radiology meeting.
Thales adopted the new look due to recent corporate changes at the firm. Its parent firm, French industrial conglomerate Thomson-CSF, changed its name to Thales in December to avoid conflict with French consumer electronics firm Thomson Multimedia. Thales’ U.S. subsidiary, Thomson Components and Tubes of Totowa, NJ, has followed suit, changing its name to Thales Components.
Other than the new name, the products and personnel at Thales remain the same as at Thomson Tubes. In its ECR booth, Thales is highlighting a new QX series of image intensifiers. Available in 9-inch and 12-inch formats, the new line features a large-area contrast ratio close to 40:1, resolution of up to 70 line pairs per cm, and low structural noise, according to the company.
Thales is also highlighting a new compact 14-inch image intensifier in its HX line, TH 9435 HX. The product creates a new size in the company’s II line, which ranges from 6-inch to 16-inch intensifiers. Thales is emphasizing the compact design of the tube, which is only 473 mm long from end to end.
Another new Thales product, Active S-Distortion Correction System (ADCS), is an upgrade designed to correct image-intensifier distortion caused by magnetic fields. The module fits in the image intensifier’s housing, and is available for the company’s 12-inch, 14-inch, and 16-inch IIs.
Finally, Thales digital radiography subsidiary Trixell is exhibiting as part of the Thales booth. Thales said that production of Trixell’s Pixium 4600 amorphous silicon detectors is ramping up, with several hundred panels expected to roll off the assembly line this year. The plant, located in Grenoble, France, is designed to produce up to 5,000 digital detectors a year when operating at full capacity.
By Brian Casey
AuntMinnie.com staff writer
March 6, 2001
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