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.
Igor Roshchin wrote:
>Quoting Shel from another thread:
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>Thu Jun 29 10:29:52 EST 2006
>Shel Belinkoff
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>>Take pictures!!!!
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>>Shel
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>When they were removing my wisdom teeth some 1.5 years ago, I
>was pleasantly surprised that the surgeon was using X-ray system
>that produces digital images. (Not to mention that I got a copy of the
>images for myself.) At about the same time, the "regular" large
>X-ray imaging facility at a modern hospital was still using film.
>
>Couple days ago I visited that X-ray imaging facility, and was given
>a CD that contains a program that displays, exports to JPEG, and allows
>to analyze enclosed (digital!) X-ray images.
>This makes it much easier to store them and to make copies.
>That program also allows to play with the image brightness, and probably
>even contrast.
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>Finally digital!
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>Igor
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