Sunnyvale, CA – Rad-icon Imaging Corporation, the leading provider of high-performance CMOS image sensors and cameras for the digital radiography market worldwide, today announced the general availability of the SkiaGraph10 EV, a further addition to its product line of Very Large Area (VLA) digital CMOS x-ray cameras. The high-performance SkiaGraph10 EV camera features 25% more active area than its predecessors in the SkiaGraph product line. Consistent with the earlier SkiaGraph8 products, the SkiaGraph10 EV supports x-ray energies up to 160 kVp; features low power consumption; and provides excellent DQE, higher resolution, and higher sensitivity than competing devices in the market.

Larger area panels enable medical radiologists and industrial inspectors to image proportionally larger subjects in a field where images cannot be reduced by optical coupling. With CMOS technology, these large area panels are essential to building a cost-effective, high-performing digital imaging system. Other imaging technologies, such as image intensifiers and CCDs, yield imaging solutions with bulky form factors, troubling distortion, or cassette-based output. Whereas CMOS x-ray cameras – like Rad-icon’s SkiaGraph10 EV – solve the issues of form factor, image output, and storage by delivering high performance, high sensitivity, and superior resolution in a compact form factor at a cost-efficient price.

“We’re excited to extend our standard product line of large area x-ray cameras with the new SkiaGraph10 EV. This panel features a quantum advance of active imaging area by providing 25% more silicon real estate than existing products,” said Thorsten Achterkirchen, General Manager of Rad-icon Imaging Corporation and Vice President of DALSA Corporation. “The SkiaGraph10 EV represents an important step in our product development towards larger and high-performing x-ray imaging panels.”

SkiaGraph10 EV camera builds upon a tiled configuration of Rad-icon’s RadEye100 very large area (VLA) CMOS image sensors to achieve a total active sensing area of 8” x 10” (20 x 25 cm). The cameras are capable of real-time imaging at up to 1.4 fps (5.3 fps in binned mode), 12-bit or 14-bit digital contrast resolution, 5 lp/mm spatial resolution, and feature a choice of scintillators providing impressive sensitivity as high as 500 ADU/mR. A Gd2O2S (Gadox) integrated direct-contact scintillator converts x-ray photons into visible light that is sensed by the CMOS photodiodes.