The Lodox® Statscan® VE1 is a fast, full-body digital X-ray imaging device. It’s the only system in the world that provides an excellent quality X-ray image up to six feet in length in just 13 seconds. It can be easily transported and is much safer, emitting up to 10 times less radiation than regular X-ray systems.

The system is specifically designed to meet the needs of emergency medical centers, giving critical life-saving information to the medical staff, enabling them to have a complete picture – literally from head to toe – of a patient’s injuries.

There are three things that distinguish the technology and make it so attractive for medical applications, says J.H. Potgieter, a member of medical design team.

“Firstly, the scattered radiation is so low that authorities allow us to put it right inside a resuscitation area in a hospital’s emergency-treatment area,” he explained. “The second advantage is the size of our images - it’s very rare to see medical diagnostic quality at such sizes. “And the third is the speed and convenience. In the time it takes the surgeon to put on his gloves, we can have a full body image waiting.”

The technology is currently being used for the initial management of trauma patients, and is an important advance in the trauma-imaging repertoire. It also assists forensic pathologists by reducing the time taken to complete autopsy examinations. The rapid, full-body images can be obtained for all bodies admitted for autopsy, and can assist in confirming the identity of the dead.

Designed by
J.H. Potgieter, C.M.D.S. Sousa, P. van Looy, A.G.J. Vermeulen, A. Booysen, R.C. Sandwith & J. Louw - South Africa

Website
www.lodox.com