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Subject: [OM] Some interesting digital x-ray image technology
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:05:56 -0400
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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