Radiology: new Automatic Collimator R915 for Mammographic Applications

Nov. 21, 2013 - PRLog -- Ralco S.r.l. was founded in 1974 as a medical collimator manufacturer outside of Milan - Italy. A medical collimation system is typically used to refer to the process and setup used during an x-ray event.

The purpose of the this system is to control the radiation that gets into the air during the x-ray procedure and also to ensure that films are not damaged during the X-ray process.

Ralco has recently produced a new X-ray collimator: Automatic Collimator R915 for mammographic investigations.

R915 is an Automatic collimator designed with four independent shutters with LED light source to indicate field dimension. Shutters can form all possible fields for Mammographic applications. Independent shutters allow for investigations of any area.

Technical feautures:

Maximum Radiation Leakage: 90 kVp - 4 mA

Single Layer Square Field: 5x5 cm to 24x30 cm at 65 cm SID

Minimum Inherent Filtration: 0.02 mm Al equivalent

Additional Variable Filtration

White LED

Dimensions: 240x175x82 mm

Weight: 3.6 Kg

4 Independent Lead Shutters

CanBus Protocol (CanOpen on request)

Ralco http://www.ralco.it/ works with all the latest Italian and International Certifications:

CE: The CE marking is a key indicator of Ralco's compliance with EU legislation and enables the free movement of its products within the European market. By affixing the CE marking Ralco declares, at their sole responsibility, conformity with all of the legal requirements to achieve CE marking and therefore ensuring validity for that product to be sold throughout the European Economic Area.

CSQ: Quality System Certification. The markings CSQ and CSQ-MED are issued to manufacturers who comply with ISO 9000 standards.

CISQ: Certified companies are entitled to IQNet certification which confers international validity to certification and have the right to IQNet marking.

IQNET: QNET International Certification Network member.

ISO 9001: ISO 9001 is the standard used for quality assurance in design, development, production, installation and servicing. This designation demonstrates Ralco's capability for design/development of a product, for production, installation and servicing.

cCSAus: Ralco products designated cCSAus are certified to have been built in accordance with or exceed the applicable CSA requirements and are approved for use in Canada and the United States.