GE Healthcare Senographe Crystal - Manual (Page 4)

Single-chip
mammography CMOS
detector for excellent
image quality
Senographe Crystal is designed to give you excellent clinical confidence
for breast cancer screening and basic diagnosis. Starting with GE’s next
generation CMOS detectors with 70 pixel size and 2 detector sizes, to high
quality Automatic Exposure Control, you’ll get excellent image quality.
GE’s next-generation detector
Senographe Crystal features a large
single-chip CMOS detector. It’s faster,
less noise, and is more stable than
the amorphous TFT detectors which
all contribute to a consistent excellent
performance. The CMOS detector
represents GE’s next generation of
detector technology. Instead of passive
pixel detection this active-pixel detector
features an integrated circuit with an
array of pixel sensors. Each of the millions
of pixels contains a photo-detector and
active amplifier. The result is excellent,
sharp, 2D image quality.
Your patients’ breasts vary in size.
So does our detector
Senographe Crystal lets you choose
between two configurations of detector
size: 23 x 30 cm LFOV for larger breasts
or 17 x 23 cm SFOV for smaller denser
breasts. So you can choose the optimal
configuration that suits your population.
Automatic Exposure Control (AEC),
where data-based automation works
Senographe Crystal’s Automatic Exposure
Control selects the appropriate kV and
mAs based on radiological density and
thickness of the breast for exceptional
and consistent image quality at optimized
radiation dose.
Pixel size matters
With 70µm pixel size, our CMOS
detector delivers sharp 2D images to
help you make confident and accurate
characterization of micro-calcifications.
Fluorescent
material
X-ray
Pixel