Radiography Chest Room

Scan and go efficiency for optimized workflow and patient throughput

 

For a dedicated chest room you might require "scan and go" efficiency for optimized workflow and patient throughput. You expect your chest room to run like clockwork while providing you with excellent image quality.

 

We can help you to design a chest room that meets your individual requirements, depending on your current and future workload and infrastructure. We offer you a choice of conventional, CR- or DR-digital chest rooms that are all:

  • compact and easy-to-use
  • ergonomic to ensure optimal convenience and performance
  • comfortable and safe for your patients
  • upgradeable to future technologies

 

 

Conventional Chest Room example

 

  • Components
    • Fixed floor stand (FS Fix)
    • Vertical stand (VE)
  • Options: automatic collimation, APR, tracking
  • Easy to extend into basic X-ray room by choosing FS Fix with lateral extension plus mobile patient table with integrated Bucky Unit
  • Ergonomic and easy to operate
  • Perfectly suited for "scan and go" workflow
  • Add PCR to step into digital world<


 

Digital Chest Room example

 

  • Components:
    • Fixed floor stand (FS Fix)
    • Digital vertical stand (VS)
    • Acquisition console
  • Features: Automatic collimation, asymmetric beam alignment, tracking, UNIQUE image processing
  • Options: DICOM. Vertical stand display
  • Suitable for high-throughput thorax units with more than 200 images per day
  • Enables a highly automated workflow

 

 

Quick Reference Chest Room Options

What are you looking for?

 

Chest room conventionalChest room CR-digitalChest room DR-digital
SystemVertical Bucky stand (VE) and fixed floor column (FS Fix)Vertical Bucky stand (VE),  fixed floor column (FS Fix), and PCRTiltable digital vertical stand (VS) and fixed floor column (FS Fix)
ApplicationChest
Abdomen
Chest
Abdomen
Chest
Abdomen
Workload 1) ~100 2) ~130 3) >200
Environmentno digital requirement; you are not planning to go digital in the near futureyou would like to go digital; system should be integrated to existing ITyou need a full digital solution

1) Number of images per 8 hour day
2) Assumption: One development system; two exams per patient and 6 minutes handling time total
3) Assumption: Minimum exam time is two mintues – limitation is system and handling

 

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