NOVEMBER 2, 2009 --The SkiaGraph10 EV, a very large area (VLA) digital CMOS x-ray camera, features 25% more active area than its predecessors in the SkiaGraph product line. The camera supports x-ray energies up to 160 kVp. It builds upon a tiled configuration of RadEye100 VLA CMOS image sensors to achieve a total active sensing area of 8 x 10 in. (20 x 25 cm). The cameras are capable of real-time imaging at up to 1.4 frames/s (5.3 frames/s in binned mode), 12-bit or 14-bit digital contrast resolution, 5 lp/mm spatial resolution, and feature a choice of scintillators providing sensitivity as high as 500 ADU/mR. A Gd2O2S (Gadox) integrated direct-contact scintillator converts x-ray photons into visible light that is sensed by the CMOS photodiodes.
Rad-icon Imaging
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
www.rad-icon.com
-- Posted by Carrie Meadows, Vision Systems Design, www.vision-systems.com
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PRESS RELEASE
Rad-icon Introduces the SkiaGraph10 EV 8 x 10" Extended-Voltage Panel
SkiaGraph10 EV x-ray camera provides an active area of 20 x 25 cm, supports energies from 10-160 kVp, and delivers cost-effective performance to medical & industrial end users
Sunnyvale, CA - Rad-icon Imaging Corporation, the leading provider of high-performance CMOS image sensors and cameras for the digital radiography market worldwide, today announced the general availability of the SkiaGraph10 EV, a further addition to its product line of Very Large Area (VLA) digital CMOS x-ray cameras. The high-performance SkiaGraph10 EV camera features 25% more active area than its predecessors in the SkiaGraph product line. Consistent with the earlier SkiaGraph8 products, the SkiaGraph10 EV supports x-ray energies up to 160 kVp; features low power consumption; and provides excellent DQE, higher resolution, and higher sensitivity than competing devices in the market.
Larger area panels enable medical radiologists and industrial inspectors to image proportionally larger subjects in a field where images cannot be reduced by optical coupling. With CMOS technology, these large area panels are essential to building a cost-effective, high-performing digital imaging system. Other imaging technologies, such as image intensifiers and CCDs, yield imaging solutions with bulky form factors, troubling distortion, or cassette-based output. Whereas CMOS x-ray cameras - like Rad-icon's SkiaGraph10 EV - solve the issues of form factor, image output, and storage by delivering high performance, high sensitivity, and superior resolution in a compact form factor at a cost-efficient price.
"We're excited to extend our standard product line of large area x-ray cameras with the new SkiaGraph10 EV. This panel features a quantum advance of active imaging area by providing 25% more silicon real estate than existing products," said Thorsten Achterkirchen, General Manager of Rad-icon Imaging Corporation and Vice President of DALSA Corporation. "The SkiaGraph10 EV represents an important step in our product development towards larger and high-performing x-ray imaging panels."
SkiaGraph10 EV camera builds upon a tiled configuration of Rad-icon's RadEye100 very large area (VLA) CMOS image sensors to achieve a total active sensing area of 8" x 10" (20 x 25 cm). The cameras are capable of real-time imaging at up to 1.4 fps (5.3 fps in binned mode), 12-bit or 14-bit digital contrast resolution, 5 lp/mm spatial resolution, and feature a choice of scintillators providing impressive sensitivity as high as 500 ADU/mR. A Gd2O2S (Gadox) integrated direct-contact scintillator converts x-ray photons into visible light that is sensed by the CMOS photodiodes. A thin graphite cover protects the sensor from accidental damage as well as ambient light. Analog signals from the photodiode sensors are digitized in eight or more parallel A/D channels and then interleaved for maximum transmission across a high-speed parallel digital interface.
The SkiaGraph10 EV camera is optimized for medical imaging up to 160 kVp for applications such as general radiography, tissue biopsy, and bone densitometry as well as for industrial inspection/non-destructive testing (NDT) applications such as plastics and composite inspection.
About Rad-icon Imaging Corporation
Rad-icon Imaging Corporation is the leading provider of high-performance CMOS image sensors and cameras for the digital radiography market worldwide. Our products enable medical practitioners, industrial manufacturers, and scientific researchers to create superior image quality, high resolution, and large active area images based on our CMOS active pixel sensor (APS) technology. Rad-icon's products address diverse applications such as tissue biopsy, non-destructive testing, circuit board testing, and crystallography. Our customers are able to implement cost-effective and high-performance digital imaging solutions. Rad-icon Imaging Corporation is a division of Dalsa Corporation and based in Santa Clara, CA with integration partners and distributors worldwide. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.rad-icon.com or call (408) 736-6000.
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Rad-icon Imaging Corporation
888 East Arques Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
