Cassetteless DR Technologies

Electronic X-ray imaging technologies convert incident X-rays into an electric charge image - either in a direct conversion single-step process or in a two-step indirect conversion process, in which the X-rays are first converted in a scintillator or phosphor to optical photons, which are in turn collected and converted into electric charge. Some of the common digital X-ray imaging technologies are shown in the chart below:

Digital radiography detectors either use CCD arrays comprising multiple CCD arrays coupled to a scintillator, or active matrix arrays employing millions of active transistor elements coupled to the X-ray converter to readout the electric charge image.

Edge's QuixFP-100 detectors use a selenium-based sensor to convert incident X-rays into an electric charge image. The charge image is transformed into a digital image using innovative Plasma DR™ technology, a novel and ingenious approach incorporating a microplasma line scanner that eliminates the problematic active matrix arrays used for image readout in other flat-panel digital radiography detectors