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Joanna Padovano, Reporter | November 22, 2011
From the November 2011 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
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In June 2011, Siemens Healthcare received Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for the Luminos Agile, the first patient-side fluoroscopy system to use dynamic flat panel detector technology. According to Pierre Niepel, the company’s director of radiography and fluoroscopy product marketing in the United States, the Luminos Agile is also the first patient-side fluoroscopy system with a height-adjustable table.
“It’s a big relief for the doctor and for the hospital staff because the system adapts to them and they don’t have to adapt to the system,” he says. “It sounds like a small thing, but it makes a huge difference to the clinical environment.”
Niepel also mentions that the product features true dual-use capability, meaning that it can be used as both a fluoroscopy and radiography system.
Dave Widmann, general manager for GE Healthcare’s X-ray rad/R&F business, says the company recently launched the Discovery XR656, a new wireless version of GE’s digital radiography system. The product uses a wireless digital detector called FlashPad, which can also be used on other GE digital systems.
The company also recently received FDA clearance for the Brivo XR285amx, an analog mobile X-ray system; the Optima XR200amx, a digital-ready analog mobile X-ray system; and the Optima XR220amx, a digital mobile X-ray system that uses FlashPad.
According to Boris Geyzer, senior product specialist for Canon USA, the company has released numerous radiographic products over the past year, including four digital detectors: the CXDI-401C, CXDI-401G, CXDI-401C COMPACT and the CXDI-401G COMPACT. Canon also recently received 510(k) clearance for the CXDI-501C and CXDI-501G digital radiography systems, with 14x17-inch imaging areas; and the CXDI-80C, a compact wireless DR system.
“We’re the first company that has a 510(k) on a small format wireless detector,” says Geyzer.
