Digital Radiography Detectors Provide Increased Sensitivity for Higher Image Quality

Three new flat panel digital radiography (DR) detectors have been designed to extend the mobility, versatility, and high-resolution diagnostic imaging capabilities available to medical institutions.

Each of the new Canon (Tokyo, Japan) DR detectors has an improved resolution of 125 μm and an increased level of sensitivity to deliver higher image quality. They have been developed to improved portability and ease of use for the benefit of users, as well as convenience and improved imaging capabilities that directly benefit the patient.

As Canon’s first compact wireless DR system, the CXDI-80C Wireless builds on the success of Canon’s CXDI-70C Wireless DR system, while achieving reductions in size and weight. Combining versatility, very high image quality and sensitivity in a more convenient and compact size, the CXDI-80C Wireless is a small area detector that delivers added convenience and freedom during diagnostic examinations.

With its lightweight but strong design and an imaging area of 27 cm x 35 cm, which is similar in size to a traditional imaging cassette, the CXDI-80C Wireless is suitable for extremity imaging and has the added benefit that it can fit into an incubator X-ray cassette tray in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). When the CXDI-80C Wireless is used with the CXDI-70C Wireless DR system, the combination of sophisticated wireless DR detectors cover all high quality imaging requirements in low dose general radiography, including imaging of the skull, chest, abdomen, and extremities.

With their new glass substrate, image quality, and portability, the new Canon CXDI-501 series DR detectors allow radiographers to deliver efficient diagnosis and excellent patient care, with the added convenience that low detector weight and very slim design brings.

Versatility is increased as the Canon CXD-501 series detectors not only include a detachable cable but can also fit into most existing bucky cassette trays. The CXDI-501C and CXDI-501G DR systems feature a 35 cm x 43 cm imaging area and each weigh 3.1 kg. Providing excellent X-ray photon conversion efficiency, the CXDI-501 series detectors also integrate a high quality 9.5 megapixel Canon LANMIT (large area new-MIS [microwave imager-sounder] sensor and TFT [thin-film transistor]). image sensor with a pixel pitch of 125 μm and are available with either a cesium iodide (CsI) scintillator (CXDI-501C) or gadolinium oxysulphide (GOS) scintillator (CXDI-501G).

The CXDI-501 DR system produces ultra-fast image output, allowing radiographers and medical staff to view an image only three seconds after X-ray exposure. The latest Canon CXDI-NE imaging software, also supplied, helps users to streamline workflow by reducing the number of operational steps required to complete a patient examination to the absolute minimum, automating many actions, and presenting data in a clear and concise manner.

The CXDI-501C/G and the CXDI-80C Wireless detectors will be available in the fourth quarter of 2011.

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