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Key differences analogue vs digital radiography |
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Characteristic
| Analogue | Direct Digital (DR)
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Remote Diagnosis possible
| no | yes
| | Low dose -slot scan- | yes/no | yes | | Constant image quality / High readability | no | yes | | Low cost per image (250-50 / day) | € 2.20 - 3.10 | € 0.30 - 1.10 | Immediate image availability
| no | yes | Picture Archiving & Communication System integrated
| no
| yes | | Film development elimination | no | yes | Distant diagnosis using low band width image sharing
| no | yes | Clean technology / Chemical free
| no | yes | | Consumable free | no | yes | < € 100,000.- initial investment
| yes | no |
Analogue
| Digital | Medical
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| insufficient expert staff to interpret the images | remote diagnosis and computer aided diagnosis possible
| | ordinary X-ray machines use high dose | slot scan allows low dose: 30 micro gray | | at times need to repeat X-ray due to very low quality of images | high quality eliminates need to repeat X-ray almost completely | only one local hard copy
| easy availability for quality control and research | | Technical / Quality |
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costly: between € 2.67 - 3.21 per image
| low cost: between € 0.27 - 1.26 per image
| | poor image or viewer quality | consistent high quality image
| poor film development causes useless images
| no developing needed
| delay between X-ray exposure and image availability
| image immediately available (can be worldwide via cellphone network / internet)
| image archiving labour intensive, at times inaccurate
| easy storage and instant access to archived images, worldwide automatic backup possibility
| chemical waste causes environmental damage
| absence of film developing / no chemicals needed |
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