X-ray images will be available more quickly with the UF Student Health Care Center’s new digital radiography X-ray machine.
Installed Tuesday, the approximately $150,000 machine is easier and faster to use, said Catherine Seemann, SHCC communications coordinator.
Digital radiography is becoming the standard because of its efficiency, Seemann said.
Before, the SHCC used a computer radiography system that required images to be processed, said Joan Street, SHCC radiology manager.
The image goes straight from the machine into the computer with digital radiography. Street said the new machine produces thumbnail images four to five seconds after the X-ray is taken.
“It’s all combined into one machine with one step,” Street said. “Now we know instantaneously whether we have to take another picture right while the patient is still in the room.”
The machine’s U-Arm design can be manipulated for patients standing or sitting.
People don’t like the idea of having to climb up on a table and lie down, Street said. If the technologists could examine the patients in a chair or standing, they would feel more in control.
[A version of this story ran on page 4 on 3/13/2015 under the headline “SHCC gets new X-ray machine for efficiency”]
Pictured is the new Digital Radiography X-ray machine located in UF Student Health Care Center. Costing approximately $150,000, the machine can produce thumbnail images of X-rays four to five seconds after the X-ray is taken.
