Image Plate - The Medium for all Formats
Image Plate - Technology
The potential advantages the VistaScan and image plate technology can give are easy to see: Latitude of exposure, high grey scale range, high resolution, reduced radiation dose. These advantages make this technology even more attractive in comparison with current sensor technologies.
Economical and environmentally- friendly
The image plates can be exposed several hundred times and repeatedly erased, thus dispensing with the need to use or keep stocks of development chemicals and the problem of waste disposal.
Advantages Image plate
- As flexible and thin as film, making positioning simple
- Conventional holding devices can be used
- No cable connection required
- All current formats
- Wide latitude of exposure
- High grey level region
- One system for the whole practice
- Existing X-ray installations can mostly be used
Disadvantages CCD/CMOS-Sensor
- Rigid and relatively bulky, thereby imposing restrictions on positioning
- Special holding devices are required
- Cable connection
- Only limited formats
- Narrower latitude of exposure and grey level region
- Higher costs with multi workstation systems