Nucletron has completed the first commercial installation of its ThoraScan digital chest unit at Bronovo Hospital in the Hague, the Netherlands. Bronovo acquired the system as one of the last digital modalities as it converts to filmless operation.
ThoraScan uses slot-scanning technology in conjunction with a charge-coupled device (CCD) digital detector to acquire digital chest images. The system was first debuted at the 1999 RSNA meeting, and received 510(k) clearance in October 2001. Nucletron, of Veenendaal, the Netherlands, formally launched the product at last week’s European Congress of Radiology (ECR).
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![Representative example of a 16-year-old male patient with underlying X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. (A, B) Paired anteroposterior (AP) chest radiograph and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) report shows lumbar spine (L1 through L4) areal bone mineral density (BMD). The DXA report was reformatted for anonymization and improved readability. The patient had low BMD (Z score ≤ −2.0). (C) Model (chest radiography [CXR]–BMD) output shows the predicted raw BMD and Z score in comparison with the DXA reference standard, together with interpretability analyses using Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) and gradient-weighted class activation maps. The patient was classified as having low BMD, consistent with the reference standard. AM = age-matched, DEXA = dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, RM2 = room 2, SNUH = Seoul National University Hospital, YA = young adult.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/04/ai-children-bone-density.0snnf2EJjr.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
