Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, in Hackney, East London, has placed the UK’s first order for a new direct digital radiography system with wireless detector from Siemens, the Ysio wi-D.
Routine X-ray procedures are “streamlined” thanks to over 500 pre-set anatomical auto-positioning programmes, increasing patient throughput, while the system is fully automated, with movements of the tube and detector “replicating eachother” to ensure the tube is centered during detector adjustments. Fixed obstacles in the room, meanwhile, such as washbasins, can be “smoothly circumnavigated”. The Ysio delivers image previews five seconds after exposure, with over seven million pixels, and a pixel size of 144 micrometres.
