ELCAN and the PICKER CORPORATION REVOLUTIONIZE THE MEDICAL IMAGING MARKET!:

During the technology boom of the 1960s, The Picker Corporation was an important North American manufacturer in the field of nuclear and ultrasonic imaging. As an innovator of x-ray systems, Picker Corporation wanted to be the first to capture detailed x-ray images of internal systems on high-speed motion picture film. This full motion capability would revolutionize in vitro imaging in medical research and diagnostics.

The Picker Corporation presented ELCAN Optical Technologies with their problem: the proposed system was optically inefficient and could not produce bright enough images. The challenge lay in optimizing the coupling of the radiographic image intensifier’s output to the recording media (film) in order to maximize the brightness and resolution of the image. The system required an extremely high performance lens that could capture and focus the available light.

Typical of ELCAN Optical Technologies, the solution was derived from working backward from the limiting factor - the sensitivity of the film. High-speed imaging necessitated the maximum amount of light reaching the film and high definition of the individual X-ray images onto the film.

The ELCAN - Picker lens solution was a projection lens with maximum transmission capabilities, an “F:1” lens. The extremely bright F:1 lens optimized the aperture (without compromise to image quality) , therefore maximizing the amount of light captured. The result was a clear, sharp x-ray image revolutionizing the medical imaging market.

This customer success was the beginning of ELCAN’s influential work in the medical imaging industry and the basis of recent advancements in the design and manufacture of digital radiography x-ray lenses. (see IDC Dreamt it...ELCAN built it!).

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