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<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 16821225" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>I've done both third party and OEM. I hired on with Siemens, in 2017, and it's been tech-geek x-ray imaging heaven ever since. When I was third party I worked on everything, from general rad rooms and ultrasound, portable C-arms, etc. (Love the OEC 9800's! So easy to work on, and they're such workhorses!)</p><p></p><p>Siemens hired me, stuck me in the cath lab in a major institution in the Houston Medical Center, and they aren't ever going to let me out, it seems. Yes, they are using the six-axis Kuka robot c-arms (Pheno) in cath labs and OR's, these days.</p><p></p><p>The other thing they trained me on is a patient monitoring system for real-time vital signs acquisition. It's nowhere near as much fun as the x-ray and the robots. It's just a PC with some funky peripherals, seriously. But if you can't get an EKG, you might as well not even turn the x-ray machine on, in a cath lab or EP lab.</p><p></p><p>I got my start in xray on Lorad M-IV Platinums. Mammo is insane. It uses soft-xray, for the contrast, and the imaging QC requirements were off the charts tight compared to any other x-ray modality. There are only three types of tissue in the human breast: adipose, glandular and connective. And to most x-ray system above 38KV, they all look the same: like clear glass. But the softer the beam, the higher the contrast, so the M-IV's used 25-28KV techniques and and that provided enough contrast in the breast to provide an image a radiologist can make a diagnostic reading from. The breast had to be compressed though, because soft x-ray does not penetrate to the depths 50KV-150KV can go. Everything in x-ray is a trade off of compromises to get a useable image.</p><p></p><p>I got out of mammo about the time it went digital, in 2007-ish. That's when I got into the cath labs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 16821225, member: 67454"] I've done both third party and OEM. I hired on with Siemens, in 2017, and it's been tech-geek x-ray imaging heaven ever since. When I was third party I worked on everything, from general rad rooms and ultrasound, portable C-arms, etc. (Love the OEC 9800's! So easy to work on, and they're such workhorses!) Siemens hired me, stuck me in the cath lab in a major institution in the Houston Medical Center, and they aren't ever going to let me out, it seems. Yes, they are using the six-axis Kuka robot c-arms (Pheno) in cath labs and OR's, these days. The other thing they trained me on is a patient monitoring system for real-time vital signs acquisition. It's nowhere near as much fun as the x-ray and the robots. It's just a PC with some funky peripherals, seriously. But if you can't get an EKG, you might as well not even turn the x-ray machine on, in a cath lab or EP lab. I got my start in xray on Lorad M-IV Platinums. Mammo is insane. It uses soft-xray, for the contrast, and the imaging QC requirements were off the charts tight compared to any other x-ray modality. There are only three types of tissue in the human breast: adipose, glandular and connective. And to most x-ray system above 38KV, they all look the same: like clear glass. But the softer the beam, the higher the contrast, so the M-IV's used 25-28KV techniques and and that provided enough contrast in the breast to provide an image a radiologist can make a diagnostic reading from. The breast had to be compressed though, because soft x-ray does not penetrate to the depths 50KV-150KV can go. Everything in x-ray is a trade off of compromises to get a useable image. I got out of mammo about the time it went digital, in 2007-ish. That's when I got into the cath labs. [/QUOTE]
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