From the January 2012 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine


X-ray tubes will advance, but image intensifiers’ days are numbered
“The X-ray tube, I think it’s going to be around for a very long time,” says Ferguson, who foresees that future tubes will move toward better power and heat management.

“The application of Anode End Grounded X-ray tube technology to diagnostic imaging systems will revolutionize diagnostic imaging equipment, as it already has with CT,” predicts Hurlock. “A smaller and lighter X-ray tube used with a digital flat panel detector will enable manufacturers to put high power and high quality imaging where it wouldn’t fit before.”
As for image intensifiers, Ferguson predicts prices will decrease for a while as new technology is introduced. “They’ll need to be able to compete both on image quality and dose with some of these new detectors that are coming out,” he says. “In the long term, they’ll be replaced by flat panel detectors.”

Although flat panel detectors are certainly gaining strength in the sector, it is unclear exactly when the time will come that they will lead to the ultimate demise of image intensifiers. “Unless our economy picks up, I don’t see those digital systems taking a large percentage of the market for several years,” says Ruth.

DOTmed Registered X-ray Tubes and Image Intensifiers 2011 Companies

Names in boldface are Premium Listings.
Domestic
Doug Anderson, DGA Medical,LLC, AZ
Stephanie Espinola, JCF Engineering, Inc., CO
David Denholtz, Integrity Medical Systems, Inc., FL
DOTmed Certified
DOTmed 100
Ed Ruth, Managed Medical Imaging, FL
DOTmed Certified
Tony Zas, Millennium Medical Systems, FL
ORLANDO DA CORTE, NICALMED, lLC, FL
John Pereira, United Medical Technologies Corp., FL
DOTmed 100
Jeff Johnson, SE Medical Systems, LLC, GA
Glenn R. Hammerquist, Berrien X-Ray, MI
GEORGE Pardue, Imaging Affiliates, Inc, NC
Eric Smith, SOS Medical Imaging, NC
DOTmed Certified
DOTmed 100
Christi Kukes, DMS Health Technologies, ND
DOTmed 100
Joseph Jenkins, International Imaging Ltd., NV
Joseph J. Jendresky, GXC Imaging, NY

International
Mads Vittrup, AGITO Medical, Denmark
DOTmed 100
Imad Muati, IMC, Syria
DOTmed 100
Haitham Khoury, MEDMACK, United Arab Emirates
JORGE LUIS LOPEZ, CIMEDICA.., Mexico
Bob Chen, Kuang Hsien Medical Instrument Co., Ltd., Cambodia
Julio Fonso Reyes, Fonso Reyes y Asoc., Argentina

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