Using „Off the shelf“ Digital Cameras to Digitize Film into Your PACS and Lightbox Free Environment

Ziele: Our aim was to create an inexpensive way to digitize conventional x-ray film into our PACS database to compare foreign studies on film to studies taken in our department in a lightbox free environment. We compared digital cameras from consumer to professional level in the price range of 500–5000$ in their ability to capture radiographs. We used the ACR Standard for Teleradiology as reference to measure the digital cameras „capturing“ abilities. A Vidar Diagnostic Pro film scanner was used as gold standard (600dpi/16bit) for comparison Methode: X-ray images taken on Mammography film (with a min of 10 lp/mm…