A Design that Combines Form, Function and Future
The award-winning Diamond began with a process of analyzing and understanding the key elements involved in breast healthcare.
Its intuitive design started with clinicians and patients and then focused on the human touch that is required in the delicate field of breast imaging. With this approach, the Diamond becomes an extension of the user’s thoughts and actions.
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Intelligence to Imaging
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AutoPoint Helps you Get it Right First Time
Diamond brings new intelligence to breast imaging. AutoPoint digitally analyzes breast composition and structure.
PaddleLogic senses which paddle the operator has selected and the detectors used are only those under the compressed part of the breast.
AutoPoint analyzes the compressed area of the breast and Diamond collimates automatically to the correct field size for each paddle.
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Autopoint selects the correct AEC detectors at the beginning of the exposure.
Diamond has 8 discrete detectors with optimized sizes, location and shapes for optimal results, especially on the dense parts of the breast. Automatic or manual selections are both possible.
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Ergonomic Positioning
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ParkBack gives you open workspace for ergonomic positioning
The ParkBack feature is unique ! The tubehead moves back completely out of the way for a more comfortable positioning posture and avoids stress-related injuries. It provides easier positioning in oblique and lateral imaging. Better positioning results in better images.
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ParkBack is operator friendly with its movements fully motorized and simple to control.
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Improved Patient Comfort
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More Breast Tissue with Improved Comfort
ECS (Easy Compression System) is unique ! Taking advantage of the natural mobility of the breast, ECS provides bi-directional compression ! It clearly helps all projections to get more posterior breast tissue imaged with improved tissue separation in order to better visualize the anatomical structures.
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ECS also assists in the positioning of challenging cases such as wheel chair patients, kyphotic patients or patients with small breasts. ECS increases patient comfort and results in more breast tissue being imaged.
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The C-Arm is driven upwards without applying compression, to open the infra mammory fold
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The breast is compressed slightly with the paddle to hold it in place
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Using the ECS compression movement, final compression is applied by the bucky from below
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Sharp Images
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The Diamond Tube Offers a Sharp Image – Time After Time
Image quality is everything. The new Diamond x-ray tube ensures this by providing sharper images in breast imaging. The new precision- machined SP-cathode construction gives Gaussian intensity distribution within the focal spot, making the finest details visible in the images, especially with the small focus.
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| The Diamond x-ray tube with Gaussian Intensity distribution for sharp images
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----: Conventional X-Ray Tube
__ : Diamond X-Ray Tube
Intensity distribution within the local spot |
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