Wireless Digital Radiography System offers Low Dosage while Maintaining High Quality Images

A lightweight, wireless, cassette-sized digital radiography (DR) system has the same dimensions as a 35-cm x 43-cm ISO4090-compliant film cassette so it will fit an existing wall-stand or table bucky tray without modifications.

The new system is a flat panel detector (FPD) incorporating Konica Minolta's (Tokyo, Japan) originally developed cesium iodide (CsI) scintillator and features low X-ray dosage while maintaining high-resolution images. By using Konica Minolta-developed image processing technology, nurtured in the development of the Regius computed radiography (CR) systems, the new cassette-sized digital radiography system will consistently provide high quality diagnostic images.

Great effort was put into designing this wireless lightweight system. The 35-cm x 43-cm panel is lighter than 3 kg and incorporates a battery design that provides extended battery life and very short charge cycle. The new wireless system's imaging console includes some improvements in workflow by providing a new simple and user-friendly design. One such feature is the ability to share an operation console with a new or existing Konica Minolta Regius CR system.

Konica Minolta has been pursuing expansion of its healthcare business in the medium to long range span, focusing on CR Regius series and other medical imaging and information systems, such as picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), and radiocontrast agents along with the development of the new wireless DR panel.

The system is pending U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510K clearance and is not yet available for sale in the United States.

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