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Article: Digital imagery helps save lives and limbs. (News).(Philips Digital Radiography system)(Brief Article)
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- Army Logistician
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Cutting-edge American technology in the hands of the soldiers on the small radiology staff of the 86th Combat Support Hospital at Camp Udairi, Kuwait, is making a difference for soldiers who have been wounded on the battlefield.
The technology is a Philips Digital Radiography system. The system works much like a digital camera, except the image is a radiograph showing bones and joints instead of a photo of a face or an arm.
A radiology technologist takes the image and stores the data on an imaging plate. The plate is placed into a processor, and the data are transferred to a laser scanner that converts the data to a digital image. "Once the image is in ...