Overview

Introducing the Precision™ 500D all-digital R&F system, the first system of its kind to offer you:

• Exceptional image performance.
• Outstanding clinical productivity.
• New standards for throughput and productivity.

High quality, low dose imaging over the full range of R&F Procedures

The Precision 500D's new, all-digital imaging chain ensures outstanding results in even the most challenging procedures:

• New image chain - 12-bit CCD-based camera with a new high-resolution image intensifier.
• Exclusive AutoEx™ dynamic exposure optimization allows the Precision 500D to maintain the optimum contrast-to-noise ratio throughout any procedure, by selecting the best techniques, focal spot, dose rate and spectral filter for each procedure - This automatic real time adjustment of the acquisition parameters during imaging improves both dose management and productivity.
• Closed-loop Automatic Brightness Control and patented Extended Dynamic Range circuitry maintain contrast while minimizing blooming.
• New, flicker-free, microprocessor-controlled monitors ensure excellent presentation of the anatomy under study.

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Improved dose management

The Precision 500D incorporates all the dose-lowering capabilities that advanced technology has to offer.Capabilities such as fluoro store to hard disk and automatic last image hold are standard - capabilities that often permit direct diagnosis without extra radiographic exposures.

But there's more:

• Spectral filtration minimizes absorbed dose during fluoroscopy.
• Real-time, user-adjustable digital filters for optional SmartFluoro™ Fluoro Noise Reduction reduce dose substantially without compromising image quality.
• Virtual Collimation lets you gauge collimator position without unnecessary exposures.
• Digital spatial filters optimize radiographic image quality.
• Optional variable frame rate pulsed fluoroscopy.

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Amazingly user-friendly interface

• Controls are grouped by frequency of use for quick access.
• Symmetrical arrangement of Power Assist Handle and Fluoro and Record controls means easy operation whether you're right- or left-handed.
• Control everything from table angulation, grid and Bucky mode to magnification and collimation with a touch of a button.
• Control angulation from either the Intelligent Digital Device or the tableside control panel.
• Effort-sensing Power Assist makes the Intelligent Digital Device easy to position.
• Electro-luminescent displays are tilted at 35 degrees for easy viewing by staffers of any height.

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New standards for throughput and productivity

Precision 500D is the product of Six Sigma design processes. This incredibly easy-to-use, integrated console provides single-point control for most exams. With the Precision 500D touch screen, exam set-up is as simple as selecting the patient from a PACS-generated worklist … and choosing the appropriate exam. The system automatically selects the best protocols.

The Overhead Tube Stand interface gives you control over parameters from kV to mAs, so you can make protocol adjustments without leaving the room.

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DICOM 3.0 connectivity

Unlike previous generations of R&F technology, the Precision 500D incorporates advanced DICOM SPS and PPS protocols. That makes it a comprehensive connectivity solution - one that streamlines procedure and image management, by letting you:

• Retrieve information directly from, and send it directly to, your facility's PACS.
• Re-organize the imaging sequence outlined in your work orders, to speed exams.
• Store each patient's results in a single file, for faster recall and review.
• Its DICOM 3.0 interface accommodates both PACS-worklist and barcode entry of patient data, to speed patient throughput and minimize the likelihood of error.

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Engineered for long-term reliability

Day in, day out, the Precision 500D performs. The Precision 500D offers a host of features designed to ensure consistently reliable operation in even high-throughput environments. Just a few examples:

• Its all-new generator is engineered for long-term reliability.
• A powerful self-diagnostic program provides visual and audible alerts from both the in-room monitor and the Intelligent Digital Device - messages to warn you of conditions ranging from Tube Overheat to Exposure Inhibit.
• Full compatibility with InSite™ remote diagnostics and iLinq remote-terminal access let you tap into prompt, expert troubleshooting at our Online Center.
• Compatibility with our InSite IQST service lets you monitor your image quality proactively; at the touch of a button, you can send a phantom image to our engineers for prompt analysis and recommendations.

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