Portable Wireless DR:Ready for Prime Time?

摘要

The image quality improvement is critical in portable imaging, says Michael Delvec-chio, RT, technical director of radiology at BWH. An initial preoperative chest x-ray for a surgical patient typically is acquired on a fixed DR system at BWH. But follow-up studies on patient floors use CR. "The image quality is not as crisp. Comparing daily films from the preoperative DR image to the postoperative CR exam can be challenging," says Charles David Healy, RT, manager of inpa-tient diagnostic radiology at BWH."Portable DR standardizes image quality and eliminates the question of an actual finding versus image quality discrepancies," he continues.