A new digital wireless, auto-trigger detector with automatic exposure detection (AED) can be instantly combined with existing X-ray systems, providing a very cost-effective solution to convert to digital radiography (DR).

A new digital detector with automatic exposure detection (AED) provides a fast and easy way for radiography facilities to benefit from high-quality digital imaging using any X-ray equipment. Wireless and cable-free, it allows healthcare facilities, regardless of size or budget, to cost-effectively upgrade film and computed radiography (CR) mobile X-ray units to DR. Worldwide, close to 50,000 of the DR systems have already been installed.

Installation of the DX-D 40 is fast, simple, and noninvasive: the AED requires no electrical connection to the imaging unit, allowing the detector to work seamlessly with virtually any X-ray system. Combined with dedicated laptop, or a MUSICA (multi-scale image contrast amplification) image acquisition workstation and system control unit (SCU) with integrated wireless workstation access point, it offers instant DR.

Accompanied by Agfa HealthCare’s (Mortsel, Belgium) next-generation MUSICA image processing, the instant DR system provides excellent image quality and contrast detail. The image-processing software, which has been specially adapted and tuned to further enhance the excellent DR image quality, is exam- and body part-independent, providing consistently high image quality and very high diagnostic IQ. The MUSICA image acquisition workstation interface shares the same look and feel as Agfa HealthCare’s CR solutions, and offers very fast previews, low cycle times, and connectivity with radiology information systems (RIS), picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), sand hospital information systems (HIS)

Wireless and cable-free, the system offers maximum convenience, and is ideal for mobile X-ray units. Fast imaging cycle times improve both workflow and productivity. The DX-D 40 detector comes with a choice of cesium iodide (CsI) or gadolinium oxysulphide (GOS) scintillators. CsI technology offers the potential for substantial patient dose reduction.

“Agfa HealthCare’s new DX-D 40 for instant DR is an excellent addition to our complete solutions portfolio for digital radiography,” commented Louis Kuitenbrouwer, vice president, imaging division of Agfa HealthCare. “It allows healthcare facilities using either analog or CR to easily and cost-effectively upgrade to a DR solution from a proven leader. And with the DX-D 40 for instant DR, we are offering them a better total cost of ownership [TCO], by combining a competitive system with lower operator costs and service costs over the lifetime of the system—without any compromises in image quality or productivity.”

Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a global provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare information technology (IT) solutions.

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