Your smallest patients are a big priority at Agfa. Children are more sensitive to radiation and its cumulative effects. Over the course of treatment premature infants can undergo as many as 30-40 examinations, and dose management is an important consideration. We design our dedicated pediatric and neonatal digital radiography solutions to deliver the optimum balance between [...]
The first 28 days are the most vulnerable time for a child’s survival. Children face the highest risk of dying in their first month of life at an average global rate of 18 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2021. In all, 2.3 Million children have died in the first month of their life in 2021 [...]
In July 2023, Associazione La Nostra Famiglia, in Bosisio Parini (Lecco), Italy, went live with the Agfa DR 600 direct radiography (DR) room. For 76 years, La nostra Famiglia, a non-profit organisation with 28 offices in 6 italian regions, is dedicated to the care and rehabilitation of people with disabilities, in particular children and young adults. [...]
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Hemel Hempstead Hospital X-ray department take delivery of their 3rd Agfa Radiology Solutions DR 600 solution. Radiographers within the department will benefit from a fully automated DR room with ZeroForce positioning and MUSICA high image quality with low dose features. This latest room has Agfa's 3D live vision camera [...]
A study was conducted by Frost & Sullivan at Rush University Medical Center, USA, in their imaging centers with two ceiling suspended X-ray rooms, and one mobile digital radiography unit from Agfa Radiology Solutions. The center performs a variety of X-ray acquisitions including chest, abdomen, bone survey, ankle, foot, hand, wrist, etc. with an average volume [...]
Agfa India was recognized as "Best Healthcare Brand" by The Economic Times of India. So proud of the India team who - through their daily efforts - contributed to receiving this award. 'Healthcare Devices Industry' in India recognizes Agfa's strength for its products and services.
Not all images are taken in an X-ray room, with the detector in a bucky. Whether at the bedside or in the X-ray room, the detector can be upside down, oriented in portrait or landscape mode, etc. The resulting image then has to be adjusted to the correct orientation with an additional manual action. SmartRotate always presents [...]
At Agfa we believe that diversity allows us to create a more humane and emphathetic enviroment. This is why today we celebrate the steps we take every day to be a fully inclusive and egalitarian world. A place where everybody is comfortable to be their full and best self. Happy Pride Day!!
According to the Frost & Sullivan white paper, “Even as the role of imaging has grown considerably, several underlying challenges across the imaging value chain are restraining radiology from being utilized to its full potential i.e., increasing workloads, labor shortages, workflow inefficiencies, etc. These challenges need to be overcome.” SmartRotate™ auto-rotates images to their standard orientation [...]
The Frost & Sullivan White paper “Business Case and Benefits of Automatic X-ray Rotation Functionality within Agfa’s SmartXR® Offering' highlights the impact of automatic X-ray image rotatation in the image aquisition workflows. Studies were carried out between 2020 and 2022 at Rush University Medical Center, in Illinois. At Rush University Medical Center, manual rotations were reduced to 4-5% [...]
