Nucletron installs first ThoraScan digital chest system

AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Mar 13, 2002

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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