Lodox Announces Sudan Contract

In an effort to improve diagnosis and treatment of emergency room (ER) patients, Lodox Systems North America, Inc. (South Lyon MI, USA) developers of the Statscan critical imaging system, has recently signed a U.S.$1.2 million contract with the Sudan Freezone Co., a Sudan government agency.

Lodox will install four of its Statscan systems in state hospitals in the Sudan. Two have already been delivered to state hospitals in Khartoum. The other two systems are expected to be delivered and installed in the first quarter of 2006.

Many countries in Africa do not have the resources for medical technology that can only perform a single, highly specialized task, whereas the Statscan critical imaging system has many uses. According to Rodney Sandwith, product manager, Lodox, "Statscan is a digital radiography [DR] system ideal for trauma, military, and pediatric medicine as well as general radiography. Its images can show soft tissue as well as bone simultaneously, which also makes it superb for screening for diseases such as tuberculosis, one of Africa's most prolific and destructive diseases.”

Statscan's innovative low-dose digital x-ray technology is capable of rapidly providing high-resolution full-body x-rays. The system gives hospitals significant disaster planning advantages, due to its very high patient throughput, delivering full-body scanning times that are comparable to the time it takes conventional x-ray systems to generate a single extremity image.

Unlike regular film or other types of digital x-ray techniques that usually take as long as 45 minutes to complete, a comprehensive two-views, full-body scan can be completed and displayed at a viewing station in typically less than three minutes. Furthermore, depending on the part of the body being scanned, the system emits as much as 75% less radiation compared to current x-ray technology.




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