Carestream Health hits 2000 CR installs

Carestream Health has announced it has reached a milestone in CR installations, having installed its two thousandth high resolution CR system at the Rechts der Isar Clinic in Munich, Germany.

The Munich University Rechts der Isar Clinic, with its specialised team of physicians dedicated to mammography, installed a new multi-plate Kodak Directview CR 975 System with mammography feature in November.

The clinic is part of the Institute for X-ray Diagnosis of the University of Munich, which performs more than 100,000 medical procedures each year and features a fully digital environment.

“We invested in the CR 975 system for mammography because it delivers excellent image quality and fits very well into our workflow," said Prof. Dr. Ernst Rummeny, director of the Institute for X-ray Diagnosis of Munich University.

Carestream Health offers digital capture of mammography exams on its CR systems in Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia and other regions of the world where approved for use. In the US, it has applied to the Food and Drug Administration for approval to market its CR system for mamography.

Using the mammography feature, Carestream Health’s CR systems can be used for both general radiography and mammography exams. The Mammography Feature can be included in new Carestream CR systems or as a retrofit in many older systems.

The Kodak Directview CR mammography feature enables mammography images to be captured digitally while utilising a healthcare provider’s existing mammography x-ray unit and workflow processes. The system is intended for use in the same clinical and screening applications as traditional screen-film based mammography systems.

"The Rechts der Isar University Clinic combines the experience of practitioners with the latest CR technology to help provide the best patient care possible,” said Stephen Archer, director of worldwide marketing, Mammography Solutions, for Carestream Health.

“The fact that we now have now more than 2000 of these innovative digital systems installed worldwide confirms that we are providing valuable benefits that meet the specialised needs of the radiology community."