Mobile C-Arms 101

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Mobile C-Arms 101

By: Vikki Harmonay

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• C-Arm imaging systems are one of the essential tools of everyday life for a variety of healthcare providers. Mobile C-Arm 101 Specialists in orthopedics, surgery, traumatology, vascular surgery and cardiology use a mobile C-Arm for imaging. So, what exactly is a mobile C-Arm? • Simply put, a mobile C-Arm is a medical imaging system that uses X-ray technology. It gets its name from the C-shaped arm that is used to connect the X-ray source and X-ray detector to each other. First introduced in 1955, it is a day-to-day workhorse in medical imaging.

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• C-Arms provide high resolution X-rays in real time. This allows the physician or surgeon to monitor progress during an operation and enables them to immediately make corrections that are needed during the procedure.

• This makes treatment results more successful and allows patients to recover more quickly. In addition, hospitals and imaging clinics benefit from costs savings from fewer follow-up procedures and minimized installations of medical imaging devices.

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How A Mobile C-Arm Works • There’s a generator and an image intensifier or flat panel detector in each C-Arm. The element that is C-shaped allows movement horizontally, vertically and around the swivel axes. This means X-ray images can be produced from almost any angle.

• The X-rays generated by the generator penetrate the patient’s body. The X-rays are converted to a visible image displayed on the C-Arm monitor by the image intensifier. A physician or surgeon can identify and check anatomical details on the image like bones, blood vessels, kidney stones and the position of implants and instruments at any time.

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Analog C-Arm • If the image intensifiers are analog, the X-ray strikes a fluorescent surface after being attenuated to different degrees through the patient’s body. The surfaces glow more or less brightly, depending on the strength of the radiation. A vacuum tube is located behind the surface, at the end of which an analog camera captures the glow and then displays it on the monitor.

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Digital C-Arm Technology • The digital development of the image intensifier technology is modern flat panel technology. The intensity of the incoming X-rays is converted into a digital value. You get distortion-free images because it dispenses electron optics which vastly improves image quality. The first C-Arm with flat panel detector was introduced by Ziehm Imaging in 2006.

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