Digital Radiography Systems

The CARESTREAM DRX-Ascend has just the right option to meet your most pressing needs in the present, with a clear upgrade path for the future. All at a remarkably economical price. Whatever your starting point, your Ascend solution will deliver superb performance and a system that will grow along with you.

• Analogue or digital
• Floor-mount or ceiling-mount tube
• A range of table options
• An optional portable, wireless DRX detector
• TechVision technology
• Optional auto tracking feature available

Broad Versatility:

• A system can be configured as analogue or digital with a tube stand (either floor or ceiling), table, walls and accessories to match your budget and workflow needs
• Elevating Float-Top Table has a weight capacity of up to 650 lbs and accommodates patient types ranging from paediatrics to adults and wheelchair patients
• Image with the wall stand, table or tabletop for single or dual detector scenarios
• Share DRX wireless detectors with other DRX systems

Freedom of Movement:

• Auto tracking features allow floor and ceiling tube stand to track with the table or wall stand in the Z axis allowing enhanced workflow and for the technologist to stay by the patient's side
• Simplify weight-bearing, cross-table and off-table studies with a generous range of motion
• Control tube stand to a position with fingertip switches on operator hand control
• Release all tube stand locks for multi-directional adjustments with a single switch
• Assure complete radiographic coverage with expansive longitudinal and transverse travel, column rotation, tube angulation and trunnion rotation

Technologist Productivity:

• Vertical wall stand includes ergonomically designed EZ-Glide hand control to allow operator image receptor adjustment from the comfortable standing position
• Rotating detector tray for table and wall stand allows for quick and controlled manual portrait/landscape rotation of the DRX detector without lifting it out of the tray
• TechVision™ technology allows the technologist to stay close to the patient during exams with a multi-colour touch screen on the tube stand for generator control and image preview within the exam room
• Hardware and software options boost facility workflow

Experience the X-Factor of Carestream’s approach to DR Systems.

Carestream is changing the DR game and putting you in control of the move to digital. The world’s first cassette-sized wireless detector platform gives you the X-Factor and makes the most of your capital investment. It meets today’s needs and positions you for growth. X-Factor is a better way to care for patients.

Compatible:

• A single detector platform works across a broad portfolio of DRX equipment
• Convert an existing x-ray room or mobile system to digital radiography in a day

Scalable:

• Take a modular approach to your capital investment
• Customize a DR solution that fits your workflow and budget
• Add DR systems as your facility expands and grows

Flexible:

• Get the most out of your DRX investment 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• Share the detector with a mobile imaging unit for morning rounds, a radiology room DR suite in the afternoon and the emergency department at night
• Use a common software platform to speed your exam process

More than 11,000 DRX detectors are helping healthcare facilities around the world unlocked the benefits of wireless DR with the Carestream DRX Family. X-Factor. Changing the Way You Think About DR.

The DRX-Excel System* gives you capabilities for both general radiography and Fluoroscopy exams in a single system and at a very attractive price. The system is also available in a choice of two models to match your needs and workflow:

• A conventional configuration, utilizing film or CR cassettes or our wireless DRX-Detector for radiology and an image intensifier for the fluoroscopy exam, or
• A DRF configuration, with a single flat-panel digital detector for both RAD and fluoroscopy.

• Control system operation remotely or at the patient’s side
• Motorized movement of tube and column maximizes speed and convenience
• Offered with either an Image Intensifier* with a high-resolution CCD camera that maximizes image quality during fluoroscopy or a Flat Panel Detector that offers high image quality fluoroscopy and general radiology images
• Auto positioning, as a function of extensive anatomical programs, facilitates faster exam set-up times
• Patient overage of 196cm allows full exploration of even very tall individuals without repositioning
• Relaxing ambient lighting and selectable music maximize patient comfort
• DAP measurements allow tracking of the exact radiation dose received by each patient
• Optional DRX-1 detector offers the power of the X-Factor and allows easy positioning for cross-table and weight-bearing exams

• Four-way table movement for easier patient positioning
• Image stitching station combines multiple images into one for easier reading of spine and lower-limb exams

Digital radiology is on the move like never before with the CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray System. The industry’s first mobile x-ray system with a fully automatic collapsible column has arrived. The days of blindly navigating tall, bulky units through hallways and around bedside monitors are over. Powered by a wireless DRX detector, this x-ray room on wheels drives like a dream and gives you fast, high-quality images.

The tight and cluttered spaces of the ICU, ER and OR are no match for the mobility of the CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution:

• So easy to manoeuvre, you can make a 360-degree turn effortlessly.
• An automatic collapsible column shrinks the system to just over four feet tall, giving you complete visibility when moving the system to any location.
• The powerful dual motor drive makes moving the system effortless—in forward or reverse.
• Along tubehead reach gives you easy access to the patient in crowded rooms.
• Two touch-screen displays enable prior image review, technique changes and image acceptance or rejection from either location.

Fast, high-quality images in tight spaces for the sickest patients:

• SmartGrid Software reduces the appearance of X-ray scatter improving image quality and readability.
• Consistent, precise images mean fewer retakes and support for faster, more accurate diagnosis.
• A powerful 32kW generator, dual focal spot tube and EVP Plus image processing combine to deliver superb image quality.
• DRX-Revolution offers prior image review including techniques and exposure history by using query/retrieve from PACS.
• Optional Tube & Line Visualization software instantly verify placement of tubes and peripherally inserted central catheter lines in seriously ill or injured patients.
• The DRX detector is available in both gadolinium oxysulfide (GoS) scintillator or caesium iodide (CsI) formats for dose-sensitive exams.

Accelerate your workflow to new levels:

This fast, reliable, and easy mobile DR system was designed for the way you work:

• Touch screen monitors at both the tube head and main display provide two work zones just like a stationary DR room.
• Position quickly with the lightweight, wireless DRX detector that eliminates trip hazards and reduces the spread of infection.
• On-board bins keep gloves, sanitizer, paperwork, markers and lockable detector storage at your fingertips.
• Quickly power up and start your rounds with a single badge swipe.
• The same easy-to-use graphical user interface is on all Carestream CR and DR products, reducing training time and maximizing productivity.
• Boost efficiency and cut costs with a detector that works across all your digital x-ray equipment.

• Carestream is changing the DR game and putting you in control of the move to digital. The world’s first cassette-sized wireless detector platform gives you the X-Factor and makes the most of your capital investment. It meets today’s needs and positions you for growth. X-Factor is a better way to care for patients.

• A single detector platform works across a broad portfolio of DRX equipment
• Convert an existing x-ray room or mobile system to digital radiography in a day

• Take a modular approach to your capital investment
• Customize a DR solution that fits your workflow and budget
• Add DR systems as your facility expands and grows

Wireless Detectors that go and grow with you

At the heart of the DRX Family is the world’s first wireless, cassette-sized detector. The imaging solutions in the DRX Family are all designed around the remarkable X-Factor platform. A wireless DR detector simply slides into existing x-ray equipment and can be used with imaging systems throughout your facility. The detector is also the center point of the DRX Family–a complete line of innovative DR systems including full radiology rooms and mobile x-ray systems.

Description and Feature:

• Wireless connectivity to eliminate the hassles and hazards of cables and reduce the risk of infection.
• Instant access to images to speed decisions on patient care.
• Ability to share detectors between any DRX room or any mobile DRX system.
• A separate battery charger that allows the detector to be used while a spare battery is being charged.

• DRX Plus 3543 and 4343 for general radiology.
• DRX Plus 3543C and 4343C for pediatrics and other dose-sensitive applications.