Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Films were read in Adelaide initially and now in Sydney and India as well. Strange world indeed. With even standard monitors, I think digital is now better than looking at film: you just have to be prepared to look at 1:1 images and scroll: great for us 50's guys who would otherwise have to wear glasses: just mag it up and sit further away from the screen ;-) On 20/10/2006, at 9:14, Philip Leeson wrote: > Here, in Iowa, we see Kodak processing and GE pacs systems. > I still kind of like the bigger image of film Chest X rays, though. > The monitors I've seen have about half the viewing area of the > oldies, though, I'm sure this will improve. > I wonder how many folks realize that a lot of their nighttime ER X- > rays have a preliminary reading from the other side of the planet > where it's daytime? > Now, that's digital at it's best. > Phil > On Oct 19, 2006, at 5:51 AM, Alastair Firkin wrote: > >> No, AGFA x-rays and pacs are still going: who knows for how long, >> but we are big users of their digital systems ;-) >> >> On 19/10/2006, at 7:39, Philip Forrest wrote: >> >>> I had my ankle digitally x-rayed in 2005 right before I got out >>> of the Navy. >>> Funny thing, it was an AGFA machine that did the shoot. Too >>> little too late >>> for AGFA... >>> The scan and the software that they used to diagnose my sprain >>> was awesome >>> though. It looked like I had benn under a scanning electron >>> microsope with >>> the detail in the bone that the image showed. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information