The good news there is that a digital dental xray uses about one tenth of
the radiation as a film one. Must be a D3 sensor.
Bill Pearce
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From: "Frank van Lindert" <Frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Some interesting digital x-ray image technology
> 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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