Carestream Health Installs 2000th CR System With Digital Mammography Feature

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 15 — Carestream Health, Inc., installed its two thousandth high-resolution CR system for mammography at the Rechts der Isar Clinic in Munich, Germany.

CR EliteThe company’s KODAK DIRECTVIEW CR Mammography Feature—which enables mammography images to be captured digitally while utilizing a healthcare provider’s existing mammography x-ray unit and workflow processes—is intended for use in the same clinical and screening applications as traditional screen-film based mammography systems.

The Munich University Rechts der Isar Clinic, with its specialized team of physicians dedicated to mammography, installed a new multi-plate KODAK DIRECTVIEW CR 975 System with Mammography Feature in November. The clinic is part of the Institute for X-ray Diagnosis of the University of Munich, which performs more than 100,000 medical procedures each year and features a fully digital environment.

source: Carestream Health