Carestream Health has installed one of its DRX-Transportable System/Lite units at the Italian-French Concordia scientific station in Antarctica.
The facility is home to 80 scientists during the continent's three-month summer and about 14 during the nine-month winter. A staff physician provides year-round medical care.
DRX-Transportable System/Lite features a tablet PC and a wireless digital image detector, and it helps medical staff diagnose and treat broken bones, hypothermia, abdominal colic, and other illnesses and injuries, according to the firm. The station physician can transmit medical images via satellite to Gemelli Hospital in Rome for consultation, the company said.
![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)
