Photonics Tech Briefs
Product of the Month
March 2000

PerkinElmer Optoelectronics, Santa Clara, CA, describes its RID 1024-400 monolithic x-ray digital camera as the first such camera to offer a monolithic active-detector area equal in size to conventional x-ray film. The company says that the 41-x-41-cm detector, coupled with its mega-pixel spatial resolution and 65,000 grayscale detectivity, produces images impossible to achieve using x-ray film. PerkinElmer says that with a complete image available for viewing in less than half a second, the user can determine if the captured image is the desired one, and if not take any number of others without having to once again pose the subject. The electronic capture is Internet-compatible, and compatible with all image analysis software and all PCs.