The hospital I go to has gone to all digital capture XRays. I talked with my doctor last time I was there for a check up and asked how he liked the new systems. His comments were that a) it was much faster to work with, b) xrays didn't get lost like they used to, while many physicians could use them simultaneously, c) he could see more with them, and d) since going to the digital xray machines, he'd never had to re- shoot a series of xrays therefore subjecting the patient to less radiation.
In other words, in his estimation, the functionality of the digital xray machines was far better than what they used to have. I suspect the hospitals' reluctance to move was simply the cost of converting the systems and training the technicians, plus the capital costs of the machines themselves. Godfrey On Jun 29, 2006, at 11:03 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > Digital X-rays have been available for some time. Most large > hospitals > resisted them because much of the equipment produced images with an 8 > bit depth and a good tech could read the film with much more > precision. > Lets hope there's been some improvement, and it's just not a > convenience > and cost savings measure. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
