EOS®

With EOS®, radiologists and orthopedists can now for the first time, have a full view of the patient’s skeleton: life-size, naturally weight-bearing, in 3D, from all angles. All this with a reduction of radiation exposure. All this with a fast workflow. All this thanks to a Nobel Prize-winning invention.

How does it work?
EOS® captures simultaneous frontal and lateral head-to-toe images of patients in the upright, weight-bearing position.

EOS® uses two perpendicular X-ray beams collimated in two very thin, horizontal, fan-shaped beams along with two detectors born out of Nobel Prize-winning technology.

Fan-beam X-rays and detectors are mounted on a C-arm and scan all or part of the patient’s body as needed. This allows for frontal and lateral X-rays of a patient to be carried out simultaneously. Two variable gain detectors detect an extremely high contrast digital radiograph line by line, while the dose administered to the patient is less than or equivalent to the exposure that results from few transatlantic flights.

Features
Unequalled radiation exposure reduction
With medical imaging usage increasing over the last 25 years, reducing the patient’s exposure to X-ray dose has been a top priority of the medical imaging community for several years.

EOS® is showing the way: The Nobel Prize-winning EOS® technology allows a significant reduction of radiation dose.

Why?
The automatic adjustment of the gain of the detector allows a radical improvement in contrast performance at a very low dose. EOS® directly addresses the ALARA (As Low As Reasonalbly Achievable) principle of radiation.

Workflow
The patient stands or sits inside the EOS® booth, then an X-ray of the whole body is taken in less than 20 seconds for an adult and less than 15 seconds for a child.

How?
The EOS® exam is performed by a linear scan of the C-arm and two very fine X-ray beams. The C-arm supports two separate imaging systems capable of simultaneously capturing both frontal and lateral images. Digital images are immediately available on the 2D workstation.

In just 20 seconds or less, two full body digital radiographs are taken. No stitching, no cassette handling: EOS® is not only highly accurate, it also saves technician and patient waiting time during busy clinics for optimized workflow efficiency.