Customer Cases
For Powiatowy Szpital w Ilawie, implementing the DR 800 with digital tomosynthesis has added a key new tool to its imaging portfolio: one that gives the hospital’s radiologists more choices than found in legacy equipment. By using multi-slice image reconstruction, the DR 800 provides the depth to see beyond dense structures, revealing more details than classical [...]
For fast-growing Kettering Health Network, transitioning to direct radiography (DR) was both a solution and a challenge. On the one hand, the benefits of DR support the network’s care quality, patient care and productivity goals. On the other hand, the radiology department needed to find a way to cost-effectively upgrade existing computed radiography (CR) systems in [...]
In the demanding environment of an intensive care unit, everything needs to run smoothly. For the ZNA hospital group, in Antwerp, Belgium, the DR 100s mobile imaging solution fits right in. Offering high productivity and high image quality, it also provides something more: a customer-driven design that enables unprecedented maneuverability and flexibility. “Our most important criterion [...]
With the DR 800 imaging multi-tool, the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has turned a dark fluoroscopy room at the West Suffolk Hospital into a productive space for dynamic imaging that eliminates waste and adds value to the patient’s care and experience. The role of fluoroscopy procedures in imaging and patient care is changing, extending well [...]
After 10 years of using computed radiography (CR) for mammography, Dr. Merino Pohl, chief radiologist of mammography at the Inmunomédica Medical Center in Concepción, was considering switching to direct radiography (DR). Dr. Merino Pohl turned to Agfa to find out about purchasing a dedicated DR mammography system. “We’ve worked with Agfa for over 15 years at this [...]
Healthcare facilities today face a shared challenge: to deliver increasingly high performance with the same number of staff and with the same, or a higher, workload. But in radiology, in particular, ensuring a high standard of patient care through fast and confident diagnoses has always been a key objective. Teaching hospital Evangelische Kliniken (EVK) Gelsenkirchen in [...]
In Kuopio (Finland), the Kuopion Eläinlääkärikeskus (KEK) animal clinic provides high-quality, holistic healthcare to companion and working dogs, as well as other family pets. KEK specializes in orthopedics – including fracture, knee and spinal surgery – and often receives referrals from around Finland. So fast, high-quality imaging is a must. Agfa’s mobile DR 100e, MUSICA image [...]
A large catchment – nearly 1 million people – with a broad socioeconomic range means the 2000 staff members at Logan Hospital, in Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia, deal with a very busy service and some challenging patient cases. The emergency department of this public, nontertiary hospital is one of the largest and busiest in the state of [...]
Klinikum Mutterhaus der Borromäerinnen, a teaching hospital in Trier (Germany), has made the transition from CR to DR systems in its radiology department. As well as allowing more examinations to be carried out, the fully digital process also benefits radiology assistants and physicians. The radiology department at Klinikum Mutterhaus der Borromäerinnen took its first steps in [...]
Find out how our DR 600 ceiling suspended DR room helped the 'Centre Hospitalier" in Bigorre, France to improve their workflow. Read the story (in French)
