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The Pixium Portable detector features a low-power Wi-Fi connection, which means that technicians are no longer burdened with cables. Healthcare professionals can now work closely with their patients under any circumstances: immobilized patients, operating rooms, intensive care units and emergency situations. It also provides the needed freedom to capture difficult or unusual X-ray projections. The Pixium Portable can even be used where Wi-Fi is unavailable, simply by using a cable connection.

Thanks to the Pixium Portable's large image (35 x 43 cm), it supports all types of X-ray exams. The detector is light, compact and easy to transport and handle. It is extremely robust, enabling it to support heavy weights, or even accidental drops. Image previews take less than 3 seconds, ensuring a quick, comfortable exam for patients and higher productivity for practitioners. It features the Pixium® cesium-iodide scintillator, offering high X-ray absorption capacity, reducing exposure to the patient while ensuring high-quality images.

The Pixium Portable detector is easy to integrate in radiography systems for digital or conventional X-ray rooms, as well as mobile units. Image pre-processing software handles image acquisition, calibration and formatting. The Pixium Portable 3543 is a complete portable digital imaging solution for all radiologists who demand outstanding quality.

This innovative system reflects the expertise in radiological imaging offered by Thales and its specialized subsidiary Trixell, a joint venture with Siemens and Philips. The technology employed by Trixell, based on cesium iodide scintillators coupled with an amorphous silicone photodiode array, has gradually become the global benchmark. Thales is one of the world's leading experts in the design and production of X-ray imaging equipment, from single components to complete medical imaging assemblies.

About Thales
Thales is a leading international electronics and systems group, addressing defence, aerospace and security markets worldwide. Thales's leading-edge technology is supported by 22,000 R&D engineers who offer a capability unmatched in Europe to develop and deploy field-proven mission-critical information systems. To this end, the group's civil and military businesses develop in parallel and share a common base of technologies to serve a single objective: the security of people, property and nations. The group builds its growth on its unique multi-domestic strategy based on trusted partnerships with national customers and market players, while leveraging its global expertise to support local technology and industrial development. Thales employs 68,000 people in 50 countries with forecast 2007 revenues in excess of € 12 billion.

Thales Components & Subsystems designs, develops and manufactures components and complete subsystems for professional applications. X-ray detectors by Thales are used in radiology applications, where they play a key role in image quality and diagnostic accuracy. Electron tubes and transmitters by Thales are used to amplify microwave and RF power for leading-edge applications in space, telecommunications, defence, radio and TV broadcasting, scientific research and industrial applications.

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