Unit Dose Cabinet
Designed for PET
Biodex Medical Systems, Inc. (Shirley, N.Y.) has released a new Unit Dose Cabinet designed
for small PET hot labs. This shielded cabinet (.25" thick lead) provides a
space-efficient work area with ample shielded storage capacity. The cabinet supports a
Compact L-Block Shield with built-in dose calibrator shield and lead brick cave, a
recess-mounted sharps container shield and a dose calibrator, mounted on a stand above the
countertop to increase work space. Key locked storage space provides two sliding top
shelves and two sliding bottom shelves. The bottom shelves are suitable to hold PET
Shipping Containers; the top shelves can be used to store syringes, syringe shields and
other small items.
For more information, contact Biodex Medical Systems at 800-224-6339 (in New York,
631-924-9000) or visit its website at www.biodex.com.
Vision processor
boards
Matrox Imaging (Dorval, Quebec, Canada) recently launched its new Odyssey Xpro and Odyssey
XCL vision processor boards. The scalable Matrox Odyssey Xpro features the premier
Motorola G4 PowerPC embedded microprocessor, running at 1 GHz. The single-slot Odyssey
Xpro also offers over 5 GB per second of memory bandwidth, up to 1 GB of DDR SDRAM memory
and up to 2 GB per second of external I/O bandwidth. The Odyssey XCL is an entry-level,
non-scalable, cost-sensitive version of the Odyssey Xpro.
For more information, contact Matrox at 514-685-2630, or visit its website at
matrox.com.
Digital Retrofit
RF and DSA Systems
InfiMed, Inc. (Liverpool, N.Y.) has announced the release of two new products: PlatinumOne
RF and PlatinumOne DSA, a new line of digital retrofit x-ray acquisition systems featuring
the new Innovision digital CCD camera. The systems offer digital capabilities for RF,
urology, and angiography. Both systems combine DICOM connectivity with advanced image
processing features and the new Innovision camera.
For more information, contact InfiMed at 315-453-4545 or visit its website at
www.infimed.com.
Educational
Direct Dosemeter
Unfors Instruments (New Milford, Conn.) is debuting a new instrument to measure real-time
dose and dose rate to the staff and others nearby during x-ray examinations such as
interventional procedures. The EDD-30 is easy to use, according to the company, with only
two keys used to control the device, it takes less than 10 seconds to learn how to operate
the pocket-sized instrument. In the specially designed LCD, EDD-30 directly displays
accumulated dose, dose rate and time. The instrument is provided with several user
selectable alarm levels. The small unique sensor has spherical response characteristics
with high accuracy and can easily be placed on a hand, at eye level or over the kidneys.
The instrument can be disinfected with 70 percent alcohol.
For more information, please contact Unfors Instruments at 866-4UNFORS or visit its
website at unfors.com.
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