Digital xray machines

Re: Digital xray machines

Nick Shackleton — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:32:55 GMT

hahahaha I just remember being taught all rads should have 4 collimated edges

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Aimee Barber — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:48:25 GMT

He He, Just as i thought!

remeber the chant of the radiologist!

'COLLIMATION COLLIMATION COLLIMATION!!'

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Nick Shackleton — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:16:32 GMT

[quote user="aimee pryme"]

Just a quick question to all of you with digital radiography,

we get lots of images sent to my practice for reports and some dont seem to be collimated at all, now is this because the plate turns the blank space black or because the collimation has to be to the size of the plate? I just worry about scatter, its still radiation!!

We still have films and an automatic processor here and I do love actually holding a film and processing it your self.

But then again I have been converted to an eBook reader so maybe there hope.....

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Sounds to me like people are just whaking the diaphragm right out to expose the whole plate bunch of lazy buggers!!! Even with CR or DR we should use tight collimation as you say its still radiation at the end of the day

and know the unexposed part of the plate does not turn black as far as I'm aware......

Re: Digital xray machines

Katie Mansfield — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:41:01 GMT

[quote user="aimee pryme"]But then again I have been converted to an eBook reader so maybe there hope..... [/quote]

no way!!!!! I'm def old skool on that count ....

K x

Re: Digital xray machines

Aimee Barber — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:04:02 GMT

Just a quick question to all of you with digital radiography,

We still have films and an automatic processor here and I do love actually holding a film and processing it your self.

But then again I have been converted to an eBook reader so maybe there hope.....

Re: Digital xray machines

Katie Mansfield — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:38:15 GMT

[quote user="Nick Shackleton"]

Yeah I enjoyed proper radiography

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What???!!!!! Dipping films into developing fluid, water, fixer, being stuck in a dark room for half an hour (can't remember the exact length of time, lol),with horrible stinky poss slightly intoxicating and noxious fluids, then having films hanging up and dripping all over the floor. All that aggro before the vet could even look at the pics and your poor patient getting 2 GAs cos it took so long to diagnose the problem before you could fix it..... yeah, them were the days!!!!!!!!!!

Pulling yer leg, Nick

K x

Re: Digital xray machines

Ilovehorses — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:34:11 GMT

Thanks for all your replies, out of the two I prefer the Celtic machine. My boss is not convinced however that the picture quality is as good as a normal xray. Would you agree? Xx

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Vicky RVN — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:33:07 GMT

[quote user="A Little TLC"]

Agreed, and without blowing my own trumpet, I was good at it! *Toot!*! I do miss the film, and snatching 5 mins by myself away from the madness in the dark room, lol!

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I miss the dark room at my old practice! On digital now. Ours is a Celtic one, not known any problems with it in the 8 months i've been using it. Use a USB to transfer images to PC to email to other practices. They are back up regularly.

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A Little TLC — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:05:06 GMT

Re: Digital xray machines

Nick Shackleton — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:00:47 GMT

Yeah I enjoyed proper radiography

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A Little TLC — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:57:22 GMT

Agreed, and without blowing my own trumpet, I was good at it! *Toot!*! I do miss the film, and snatching 5 mins by myself away from the madness in the dark room, lol!

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Nick Shackleton — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:49:08 GMT

[quote user="A Little TLC"]

We have had one for 6ish ears now? New one soon, sqweeeee!! Yes... I am excited... I'm so sad. They are bloody brilliant though.... THough in some ways, I do quite miss processing.....

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There is a bit of an art juggling exposures with processing! I liked holding an actual film in my hand

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A Little TLC — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:44:22 GMT

We have had one for 6ish ears now? New one soon, sqweeeee!! Yes... I am excited... I'm so sad. They are bloody brilliant though.... THough in some ways, I do quite miss processing.....

Re: Digital xray machines

Katie Mansfield — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:39:50 GMT

We weren't offered a CD rom of my daughter's XRays in Kent, but to be fair we weren't seen until 1am on a Saturday night / Sunday morning in the middle of August, and they were dealing with 1001 drunks and an extremely confused old man and the poor doctor we saw looked knackered and quite stressed. When we went to our local hospital we went to walk-in XRay, not A&E with a letter from our GP. They weren't as busy and routinely give out CDs. The radiographer we saw there said they could probably get my daughter's XRays from Kent but it could take up to 4 weeks!!! It doesn't really matter cos there wasn't much wrong in the end, but cos her elbow was still swollen and she couldn't straighten her arm I was concerned and just wanted them to take another look. I was just surprised they didn't upload the images like we can, but I guess as Nick says that's due to different laws surrounding human XRays. Still, I know now if it ever happens again and we're 100 miles from home to ask for a CDrom!!!!!

K x

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Nick Shackleton — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:15:23 GMT

Just a word of warning if you are going to email or send on a CD to referral centres always remember to attach the DICOM reader as well. As different systems use different readers.

Regards NHS Health Authorities images are stored on a PACS (Picture Archiving Communications Systems). There are a lot more legislation regarding images and security. Images can not be stored on the WWW. You can however send images although we can only do this with local authorities that we have a connection with. We are not able to send via email due the fact that these can be intercepted. We usually encrypt them onto a CD and send with the patient. These can then be uploaded onto another HA PACS system.

I have known a taxi being order just to take a CD of images to another hospital at a weekend!

Re: Digital xray machines

Bex Wilton — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:04:17 GMT

[quote user="Katie Mansfield"]

Isn't mad that while veterinary clinics can do this when my daughter had a suspected broken elbow on holiday in Kent when we got back to Essex our local A&E told me there was no way of transferring XRays between Health Authorities. I know about WWW storage and pointed that out but the doc was adamant. Oh well..... She's fine btw,bad bruising, the crack was actually her growth plate!!!!!

K x

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Hey

Glad she is okay, hope the bruising went down quickly!

How bizarre, I thought all NHS places were connected - obviously not.

Bex x

Re: Digital xray machines

Ilovehorses — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:14:25 GMT

Thankyou, we are trying two systems out, Celtic at one branch and fuji at another xx

Re: Digital xray machines

Katie Mansfield — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:16:03 GMT

[quote user="Bex Phillips BSc (hons)"]We went digital recently and our xrays are backed up onto a program called Dark Horse on the world wide web, which you can access all over the world as long as you have your login details.[/quote]

K x

Re: Digital xray machines

Sparky — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:03:46 GMT

Having had a chemical processor before we brought our digital machine....I love it! and so does everyone else. It got so bad we were changing chemicals weekly! and it wasn't a 2 minute job either! It was a smelly dirty job. The processor wasn't that reliable either, and the problems with film faults....but the digital....its amazing! less mess, less smell-however we had to put our x-ray price up as the digital was so expensive...but it's so lovely. We've connected it with our computer system and you can view it from any computer in the practice and email it over to referral practices-saving on postage!!

I would say to shop around a bit and try them out...we had several we tried out and they all had the good and bad bits.....but all in all they are great!

Re: Digital xray machines

Julie-Anne Wilson — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:29:31 GMT

You could back up the same as with any other computer. A seperate external hard drive or online. There are lots of places that offer online storage now. You can also link your processor comp to your surgery comps and save the images right on the animal's record.

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Bex Wilton — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:42:12 GMT

Hey

We went digital recently and our xrays are backed up onto a program called Dark Horse on the world wide web, which you can access all over the world as long as you have your login details. We also transfer onto the patients file so can be viewed in consults. So saved all over the place I suppose.

Bex xx

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Ilovehorses — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:22:56 GMT

What have you found re storage? From what I understand the xrays are stored on hard drive and if nec when can put them onto discs. I'm just worried in case the hard drive broke, do you back them up just in case?? Thanks for your replies so far xx

Re: Digital xray machines

Katie Mansfield — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:17:05 GMT

So quick, so clean, and, if nec, you can put the XRays on CD

K x

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Julie-Anne Wilson — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:12:29 GMT

We have one at our new branch and have been promised one at our main branch. I love it, it's so much quicker, less chance of scatter and you don't have to reload cassettes. Or change fluids, that's one job I hate. I definitely love them and can't wait 'til I get to use one full time.