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Digital Front End Capture - The Future of X-Ray Imaging
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2007--The migration of radiography toward a film-free digital environment is in full swing, with both computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) making significant inroads over the years. One of the key factors driving this adoption spurt is the ability of CR and DR systems to deliver higher throughput, thereby allowing hospitals to increase revenues through additional patient examinations. The high resolution of images obtained from these systems and the low radiation exposure risk for patients are also driving the future growth of these diagnostic digital imaging technologies.
Frost & Sullivan (http://www.ti.frost.com), Diagnostic Digital Imaging, finds that the front-end digital capture using flat panel detectors, with concentration on the post processing sector, would offer a platform forward in the years to come.
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"The recent introduction of portable devices flat panel detector systems is a notable development in the diagnostic digital imaging field," notes Frost and Sullivan Research Analyst Pramodh Ishwarakrishnan. "However, although these systems offer enhanced levels of flexibility and could possibly replace CR systems, their image quality needs to be examined and compared to that of the low-cost storage phosphor system. Some of the notable developments in this area will include dual side CR readout, line-stimulation CR readout, and line scan CR systems."
A promising area of application for these dynamic flat panel systems is fluoroscopy. Studies employing these systems have shown that there is an improvement in the quality of the image obtained and reduction in the patient exposure level. Improvement in both detective quantum efficiency (DQE) and signal to noise ratio of detectors by manufacturers will help further reduction of the exposure level and offer improvements in the quality of the image. Manufacturers have gone a step further in designing a new architecture of the read out arrays that could be optimized by reducing the size of the circuit and pixels.
