Nucletron's chest camera set to launch this year:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Nucletron is planning to launch its new direct digital chest camera, the Oldelft ThoraScan, in the third quarter of this year. The Netherlands company has based its camera on slot-scan technology, which projects a 1cm thick, fan-shaped X-ray beam to a multi-linear CCD detector. Nucletron said that this technique automatically reduces the amount of X-ray scatter, eliminating the need for an anti-scatter grid, which absorbs most of the beam. The Oldelft can therefore reduce the X-ray dose by 40% compared with current systems which use a grid, said the company.