| Many medical offices rely on portable x-ray | | | | easier to pack and unpack the necessary devices |
| systems to help them meet the needs of | | | | to obtain the digital images that you need. |
| patients who cannot travel to their facilities for | | | | You can gain an extra level of versatility from the |
| treatment. Physicians who work in nursing | | | | portable equipment when you also utilize a PACS |
| homes, sports stadiums or on cruise ships will | | | | system on a laptop personal computer. The |
| need a portable x-ray imaging medical device to | | | | PACS component will allow you to view, send, |
| help them take digital medical images for patients | | | | receive and archive the digital images that you |
| who are not at a home medical facility. When | | | | take while away from your home office. This |
| the portable digital x-ray machine is coupled with a | | | | means that you can use the laptop as you would |
| PACS system loaded onto a laptop computer | | | | a workstation. The PACS will help you enhance |
| with a wireless Internet connection, the physician | | | | the digital images that you take, and you can |
| will be able to not only capture digital images, but | | | | immediately send them over a secure wireless |
| also view them, transmit them and then store | | | | Internet connection to consulting physicians who |
| them with the help of the computer system. | | | | have access to a workstation running PACS. |
| A portable x-ray system that produces DICOM | | | | Peripherals such as printers can also be attached |
| medical images brings all the practicality found in a | | | | to the laptop computer, allowing you to print if |
| full office-sized radiology suite to your off-site | | | | needed. You can also store the digital DICOM |
| patients but in a compact package. Systems are | | | | images that you take while away from the home |
| available featuring CR or DR imagers, and both | | | | facility on your laptop, or send them via the |
| can be used in a portable environment. These | | | | Internet to a secure storage archive, where they |
| mobile imagers are typically used with wheeled | | | | will be ready for you or other colleagues to |
| carts, making it easy to move the equipment to | | | | access when needed. |
| the patient. The weight of the equipment is | | | | A medical imaging distributor website can help you |
| much lighter than a full-sized imager, and comes in | | | | learn more about portable x-ray systems and will |
| at around ninety pounds. Models are available | | | | allow you to determine which portable x-ray |
| that can fit into a mobile unit, making it much | | | | imaging medical device will work best for you. |