My dentist has a small set-up using the same technology. It works
amazingly fast, he (and I) can see the images of my teeth on a screen
next to the reclining chair immediately after they've been taken
Frank van Lindert
Utrecht NL.
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:05:56 -0400, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>I had my knees x-rayed yesterday (no good news there) and it was done
>using a Fuji FCR XC-2 digital processor. Or at least the x-ray tech
>told me is was digital but couldn't explain how it worked. I couldn't
>figure it out since I expected a digital sensor that was wired directly
>to a computer. Much to my surprise the "sensor" seemed to be no
>different than a film plate. Just a rectangular, olive colored
>cartridge roughly 11x17x1" wrapped with an aluminum frame around it.
>After the exposure was made the cartridge was removed (as though it was
>film) and taken over the the Fuji processor where I could no longer see
>what was going on.
>
>After the x-rays were done and I discovered that grilling the x-ray tech
>was getting me no useful information I wrote down the name and model
>number of the machine and looked it up on the web. The technology is
>"storage phosphor technology" (SPT) and operates in a vaguely similar
>manner to storage phosphor display tubes used on oscilloscopes and
>analog graphic display devices of many years ago.
>
>Anyhow, I thought some of you might find the technology description
>interesting as did I. It's not the digital imaging technology we've
>come to know in our cameras. <http://www.alara.com/about/spt.html>
>
>Chuck Norcutt
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