Radcal has introduced Rapidose, a multifunction x-ray analyzer designed to measure the performance of x-ray equipment using a standard laptop computer. Rapidose is designed for multiple medical devices and applications, including all dental radiography systems (even cone-beam CT), according to the company.
Rapidose plugs directly into the USB port of a computer, eliminating the need for a typical separate control/display unit and wireless connections. (A mobile PC with touchscreen is available for users who don't have a laptop to use, the company noted.) All measurements are automatically saved to the laptop hard drive, and all information is displayed on the laptop screen in waveforms.
Rapidose simultaneously displays and records dose, dose rate, kV, exposure time, half value layer (HVL), filtration, pulses, pulse frequency, pulse gap, and more. In addition, a virtual scope feature simultaneously displays kV and dose waveforms, which can be magnified to analyze details, Radcal said. Rapidose measures every exposure automatically without the need to reset for different measurements.
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