Combo Digital X-Ray/Portable Wireless Detector Handles Wide Range of General X-Ray Studies

A combination of mobile direct digital X-ray unit and portable wireless detector offers ease of use, excellent imaging, with the potential for patient dose reduction.

The new solution delivers productivity and workflow enhancement benefits especially for units performing bedside examinations, and handles a broad range of general radiography X-ray studies, even for the least mobile and pediatric/neonatal patients. The combined system also provides ease of use and infection control.

Agfa HealthCare (Mortsel, Belgium) presented its combined DX-D 100 mobile direct digital X-ray unit plus DX-D 30 wireless detector at the 92nd German Radiology Congress (Deutscher Röntgenkongress [DRK]; Hamburg, June 1-4, 2011). This solution offers benefits ranging from potential dose reduction, which is particularly important in pediatrics and neonatal care, with infection control features and is easy to use.

In intensive care units (ICUs), emergency rooms, and operating rooms, bedside examinations are an important part of the care process. Agfa HealthCare's DX-D 100 plus DX-D 30 meets the special needs of these areas, while also offering the productivity and workflow benefits and the superior image quality expected from an Agfa HealthCare direct radiography (DR) solution.

The DX-D 100 is a mobile digital X-ray unit with a small width that is easily moved and operated by a single person, enabling improvements in the quality and efficiency of bedside imaging. It delivers almost real-time previews and very fast cycle times, combined with improved patient comfort. With its excellent handling capabilities, patient waiting times are reduced and diagnostic confidence increased.

The benefits of the DX-D 100 are enhanced by putting it together with Agfa HealthCare's DX-D 30 cassette-sized wireless detector, in a single solution. With its wireless technology and superior battery capacity of more than six hours, the DX-D 30 is especially convenient to use in challenging imaging situations such as the ICU or operating room. There is no cord to interfere with patient positioning and no trailing cable to pick up dirt and germs from the floor. Furthermore, the cesium iodide scintillator detector of the DX-D 30 offers a higher detective quantum efficiency (DQE), leading to a potential lower patient dose combined with high image quality.

These benefits also make the DX-D 100 plus DX-D 30 solution an ideal choice for pediatrics and neonatal care. "Patient dose for infants continues to be an important topic in the medical world, and the potential dose reduction, ease of use and infection control advantages of our solution tick all the boxes for this key specialty," commented Stefan Peters, head of Imaging DACH, Agfa HealthCare. "And it does this without sacrificing our high standards for productivity and workflow improvement and imaging excellence, which we achieve through the combined benefits of our NX workstation, advanced DR needle technology and Musica2 image enhancement solution, and best-of-breed hardware."

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