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" Has anyone we know had a go at retro-fitting CR to old x-ray systems? Was it a cost-effective solution? And (perhaps most importantly) did patient doses decrease - or even increase?"
We have digitized 30 centers with different rates of use that worked with a wet system and x-ray equipment without an exposure meter.
An increase in the dose used is noted, eventually there are excesses of up to 7 times what is necessary according to the exposure index.
I have seen that underdoses give poor quality images that are discarded by the end user, but overexposures are not recorded and windowed. Without care in the use of that radiation.
