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Lauren Dubinsky, Senior Reporter | April 18, 2014
From the April 2014 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
The Q.zen line also uses a crystalline silicon detector rather than the traditional amorphous silicon detector. Any kind of detector that converts X-rays to a signal has a certain amount of electronic noise associated with it, but the crystalline silicon detector has a low level of electronic noise so it can produce a useable image with a much lower input radiation dose.
“Because the noise content is so low, you don’t degrade the image as much as you would with the previous generation of detector,” says Dewey.
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He adds that to his knowledge, Siemens is the only company that currently uses flat emitter technology and a crystalline silicon detector.
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