Novel ortho device boasts throughput, low dose, and 3D

March 4, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. Novel ortho device boasts throughput, low dose, and 3D French firm biospace med acquires lateral, frontal radiographs simultaneously, creates reconstructions Greg Freiherr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technology that 15 years ago led to a Nobel Prize in physics is today the cornerstone of a unique DR system that promises up to a 90% cut in radiation dose for body skeletal images compared with film systems. It produces both front and lateral views from head to toe in as little as 20 seconds . The key is a particle detector invented by Nobel laureate Georges Charpak, adapted for medical radiography and built into the EOS low-dose 2D/3D orthopedic scanner by the French firm biospace med. Two slot-scanning digital detectors paired with x-ray tubes and mounted orthogonally on a vertical C-arm sweep the length of the patient in one continuous motion. Data can be displayed separately as lengthwise images, free from the distortion that can occur when conventional DR systems stitch together static images to cover a patient. Or, the frontal and lateral swipes of the body can be combined into a volumetric image.

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