Carestream Well being Unveils New X-Ray Detectors, Enhanced X-Ray Rooms At World’s Largest Radiology Exhibition

Carestream’s legacy of delivering high quality medical imaging expertise continues with the launch of recent digital X-ray detectors that assist enhance medical outcomes, whereas enhancements to its present product portfolio mirror the corporate’s deep understanding of the radiology career.

On the annual assembly of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, the corporate is displaying its increasing portfolio of medical imaging methods that present quantifiable advantages to healthcare organizations and their sufferers, together with:

• New Carestream Focus HD 35 and Focus HD 43 detectors that provide larger decision with a 100 micron pixel pitch that enables for picture magnification for higher visibility of small objects and microstructures. The detectors’ Cesium (CsI) scintillator is right for dose-sensitive pediatric sufferers; and the detectors have an IP56 ranking for higher safety towards mud and fluid ingress.

• Subsequent technology of long-length imaging, the Carestream DRX-LC Detector (INVESTIGATIONAL – NOT AVAILABLE FOR COMMERCIAL SALE) captures long-bone and backbone photos with a single publicity, making it perfect for pediatric imaging and long-bone and backbone photos of individuals with restricted mobility. In distinction, the normal multi-shot strategy requires three to 5 exposures adopted by manipulation and stitching of the pictures. The brand new detector is designed to seize the complete picture in a single publicity to reduce dose and mitigate movement artifact that may seem from affected person motion with a multi-shot examination. The DRX-LC Detector is designed with X-Issue so the detector might be shared throughout totally different Carestream X-ray methods and is suitable with each rooms and cellular models.

• Enhancements to the Carestream DRX-Evolution Plus that present improved affected person consolation and a greater ergonomic expertise together with improved workflow for the radiographer. Its new tabletop design eliminates rails that may trigger pressure and discomfort for each radiographer and affected person, enabling sufferers to be moved extra easily and with much less effort to the examination desk.

• New options within the Carestream DRX-Excel Plus present a greater employees expertise with quicker workflow and higher diagnostic picture high quality. Designed particularly for giant and mid-size hospitals and medical facilities, this revolutionary system combines fluoroscopy and basic radiology capabilities in a single compact unit. It delivers accelerated workflow, high-resolution photos and a variety of affected person examination choices.

“Our dedication to shortly reply to the wants of the radiology group with concepts that clearly work is as robust as ever, and we’re solidly positioned to proceed creating options which have quantifiable advantages to our prospects and their sufferers,” mentioned David C. Westgate, Chairman, President and CEO of Carestream. “Organizations can have full confidence in our potential to offer high-value expertise that helps decrease prices, and improves imaging workflow for radiology departments, technologists and different healthcare professionals—all with the aim of bettering affected person care.”