Primary Benefit

Since the meter has the same energy response to x-rays as the imaging plate, the meter can take the place of the plate and reader when assessing the AEC system performance for thickness and kVp ‘tracking’, and density selector settings providing a tremendous (eight-fold) boost in productivity.

Versus the OEM meters:

• Universal, can be used on any manufacturer's system.
• Measures and assesses many additional metrics which may be more
  important than what the manufacturer allows/suggests.
• Totally independent method of assessing CR
  system performance compared to an OEM system, that may be "biased" and may be subject to "conflict of interest".
• Price.
  

Radchex Meter

The QA Radchex is a simple, easy-to-use, and an inexpensive instrument that is self-contained and provides three values when exposed to x-rays: CRLU, which represents the plate reader light output from a CR imaging plate when exposed to x-rays (also represents the pixel values on the image); Exposure indicator values for all CR manufacturers (S#, EI#, LgM#) and Speed ( which represents the relative system speed at which the CR system is operating compared to a film/screen system). Once its ‘electronic’ cassette has been exposed to x-rays, the three values appear automatically on an LCD display on the front of the cassette.

A pressure sensitive On/Off switch activates the meter and is used to RESET the meter between exposures. The size of the electronic cassette is the same as a standard CR cassette (10” x 12”) and can be placed in the Bucky tray for ‘in-Bucky’ or ‘table-top’ measurements.

When used with the Fuji ‘FRC 1 Shot Phantom Plus’ Program, instead of a dosimeter,the calibrated and traceable CR Radchex insures that Fuji’s exposure requirements for constancy testing are met and is used to determine the relative sensitivity of the image plate reader. The Radchex/Mamchex calibrates and balances each and every plate reader back to the Fuji factory calibration.

Mammochex Meter

Features

The QA Mamchex is a simple, easy-to-use, and an inexpensive instrument that is self-contained and provides two values when exposed to x-rays: MamLU, which represents the plate reader light output from a CR imaging plate when exposed to x-rays (also represents the pixel values on the image); and Speed (which represents the relative system speed at which the CR system is operating compared to a film/screen system). Once its ‘electronic’ cassette has been exposed to x-rays, the two values appear automatically on an LCD display on the front of the cassette.

A pressure sensitive On/Off switch activates the meter and is used to RESET the meter between exposures. The size of the electronic cassette is the same as a standard CR mammo cassette and can be placed in the Bucky tray for ‘in-Bucky’ or ‘table-top’ measurements.