Tuesday 2 September 2008

New Canon Compact Digital Radiography System Offers Unmatched Image Quality And Portability

�Canon Europe, world-leader in imaging solutions has proclaimed the debut in Europe of the Canon CXDI-60G, a new addition to Canon's Digital Radiography (DR) system range. The Canon CXDI-60G is a constrict, lightweight, portable model, which extends the range of examinations that can be completed victimization digital radiography equipment.


Weighing just 2.7 kg this flimsy, lightweight slim-body CXDI-60G offers an effective imaging country of 234 x 284 mm, accommodative a diverse range of applications, including the X-raying of custody, elbows, feet, and knees, among the most unwashed orthopaedic examinations. The engineering is used in a wide variety of applications including paediatric intensive charge, veterinary radiography, archaeology and forensics.


Inheriting the same compact, jackanapes, slim-body merits as its predecessor, the new Canon CXDI-60G delivers unmatched digital image quality and portability, for the flexible establishment of radiographic suites of any size or budget. The model's detachable sensing element cable, which provides power to the unit and transfers information, enables easy room-to-room installation.


The compact, portable conception makes it a practical solution for handling various applications that are hard to perform with fixed devices. These include incubators in limited care paediatric units and tabletop exams in injury and Accident and Emergency departments, where the CXDI-60G provides a unique small detector for examining a variety of extremities such as the skull and hip. The CXDI-60G is available through medical systems specialist distributors in Europe. In the UK, Xograph, a ahead independent aesculapian equipment provider and long term Canon partner, testament be supporting medical teams at the Reading Music Festival this year victimisation this solution as role of its services to festival-goers.


Canon's new CXDI-60G succeeds the popular CXDI-31, which was the world's first portable cassette-type DR system. Canon's portable DR systems were used by Egyptologists during the groundbreaking identification of the mummy Nefertiti. Using Canon equipment, the project's radiographers and scientists were able to view the skeleton of the mummified body in situ, providing the Egyptologists and human remains specialists with a powerful fresh insight into their occult subjects.


Enabling X-ray images to be confirmed on a prevue monitor roughly three seconds after exposure, the system contributes to timely and effective patient care. Additionally, Canon's proprietorship control software, which supports enhanced image-processing performance, contributes to increased diagnostic accuracy by qualification possible X-ray images optimised for the region being examined.


The CXDI-60G features an environmentally conscious design in submission with the European Union's RoHS Directive, which obligates companies to eliminate or replace sextet specified wild substances.


The Canon CXDI-60G digital radiography system*2 will go on sale in Europe in August 2008.

About Canon Europe


Canon Europe is a subsidiary of Canon Inc. of Japan, a world-leading innovator and provider of imaging solutions for individuals and businesses.


The master business focus for Canon Europe is in two clearly outlined markets: Business Solutions (development IT products, solutions and services for the berth and professional print environments) and Consumer Imaging (pic, video, Bubble Jet printers, scanners, fax machines and multifunction devices).


Canon Europe also provides Industrial Products including send lenses, semiconducting material and medical equipment.


Canon Europe employs in the region of 11,000 people across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

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