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RE: Kodak X-ray film lowers radiation dose
Sandy and Everybody,
I didn't say replace all I said largely replace.
I bought my first real PC, a Texas Instruments unit in the early 80s about
the same time the company I worked for bought an IBM XT for general clerical
and other use.
I went to a bank about 2000 and asked if I could type a very short letter
and they said something like, "Oh, sure, over there, I think we still have
some ribbons if they have dried out." You can still buy typewriters today,
I even found a place where you can get them repaired recently but I'd guess
over 90% of the keyboarding is just that, typing on a keyboard using a
computer as a word processor rather than on a typewriter.
We still had occasion to use our typewriter for my daughter's college and
scholarship applications.
My guess would be in twenty years x-ray film will be about where the
typewriter is now.
Hey anybody remember mimeograph machines and the funky smell of the masters
before Xerox came along?
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represented as those of the VA Eastern Colorado HCS, the Dept. of Veterans
Affairs, or the US Government.
Peter G. Vernig, Radiation Safety Officer, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care
System, 1055 Clermont St. Denver, CO 80220, peter.vernig@med.va.gov, Phone=
303.399.8020 x2447; Fax = 303.393.5026, alternate fax, 303.393.5248
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy Perle [mailto:sandyfl@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:49 AM
To: 'JGinniver@AOL.COM'; jim_hoerner@HOTMAIL.COM;
radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu; Vernig, Peter G.
Subject: RE: Kodak X-ray film lowers radiation dose
On 5 Aug 2004 at 9:56, Vernig, Peter G. wrote:
> Film is passé and will probably soon be all but obsolete in this
> country. Digital imaging is here now and we switched over a year ago
> in radiology. One of our clinics uses it in their dental clinic we do
> not as yet, matter of inertia and start up costs. But besides
> reducing use of chemicals with toxic silver [that's right silver] and
> attendant silver recovery it allows us to read studies from two of our
> clinics here.
The above may be true, but as John just wrote, this may not be as
feasible for older, established, but small X-ray facilities. I expect
that Kodak, as well as other manufacturers, will continue to offer
film, and, it will continue to be used, until existing equipment in
offices can no longer be maintained, or upgraded.
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Global Dosimetry Solutions, Inc.
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