Digital Motion X-Ray Image-Capturing Device Designed for X-Ray Installations

The first ever direct digital X-ray, motion, and/or still image retrofit system has been developed that is compatible with most medical X-ray generators, including single-phase and three-phase, standard, and high frequency X-ray units.

The 1713-Motion is the first digital imaging device to acquire motion X-rays at a rate of 30 images per second or in still mode deliver a 21-megapixel image with 4,024 x 3,016 true pixels. Image capture mode is switchable from still to motion with one click of the computer mouse.

“These moving images will change the way chiropractors do their job,” said Dr. Thomas Klapp, a chiropractor from Ann Arbor, MI, USA. “The fact that I can add this Motion system to my three existing X-ray machines is huge,” said Dr. Adam Rodnick, a chiropractor from Commerce Township (MI, USA).

Motion studies appear on the computer screen in 10 seconds and five seconds for still images after an X-ray exposure. This is not a fluoroscopic product and has the potential to replace a constant exposure fluoroscopic study system for half the equipment cost. If installed as a retrofit to an existing X-ray machine, the savings will be greater.

The system was developed by Ann Arbor Digital Devices (A2D2; Ann Arbor, MI, USA). The suggested retail price for the A2D2, 1713-Motion retrofit system is USD 29,500.00. The system is installed, motion-fitted to existing X-ray machines by replacing the bucky with the 1713-Motion detector, and staff technique training all completed in one day. The 1713 Still image system price is USD 22,500.00 and is field upgradeable to the complete Motion system for USD 7,000.00.

All systems come with a Dell (Round Rock, TX, USA) computer, a high-contrast monitor and the A2D2, Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)-compliment software with picture archiving and communication systems (PACs). All systems and software are wholly developed and owned by A2D2. The 1713-Moption system is patent pending.

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