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One Source for Asset Protection Solutions
Computed Radiography with Digitai Film Archiving
MISTRAS Group is a leading provider of Computed Radiography (CR) with Film Digitization (FD). This significant development in advanced Radiography has become a growing demand far customers requiring the highest
quality,accuracy,and storage capabilities.
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MISTRAS' Computed Radiography produces digitai X-ray images without using film.The same X-ray producing devices are used as with typical X-ray testing (RT), but the image is captured an a flexible, reusable imaging plate coated with a phosphor materia!. The imaging plate is then scanned by a laser scanner producing a digitai image that can be edited, uploaded and shared via a computer. In most cases, this technology can be easily retrofitted into film-based systems, eliminating the need far film, chemicals, processing lab, equipment, and storage - and the costs associated with those ancillary tasks.
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The imaging plate is then erased by technicians and ready far use again in 60 seconds or less far thousands of more scans. The digitai image can be enhanced, filtered, annotated, zoomed, shared, and archived, ali electronically.
SAFETY
There are many reasons the use of MISTRAS' Computed Radiography with Film Digitization Services has grown in demand - increased efficiency, cast savings, and convenience - but MISTRAS places one factor above ali others.
CR with FD allows far the use of lower strength
radioactive sources (se75), which reduce boundaries and exclusion zones and result in a safer work environment far ali involved.
EFFICIENCY & COST SAVINGS
While theincrease in safety is of paramountconcern, the increase in customer service and efficiency Computed Radiography with Film Digitization Services provides is hard to overlook.MISTRAS' CR with FD actually increases productivity, safety, and quality at the same time. That smaller exclusion zone is alsojust one of severalproducts of an overall increase in efficiency with the use of MISTRAS' CR.
Decreased on-site exposure times and a smaller exclusion zone also means shorter, less frequent, and less costly nonproductive downtime.
The most profound improvement in productivity is related to the actual processing of images (see infographic). Because MISTRAS' CR allows far multiple plate processing at the same time, that equates to a production improvement of 15 to 30 minutes per hour using Computed Radiography versus traditional film radiography.This promotes same shift response to acceptance results,defects, and rework requirements.
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Computed Radiography with Digitai Film Archivinglnadditiontoeliminatingthe darkroom,chemica l, and hazardous materia! costs associated with traditional X-ray film development, MISTRAS' Computed Radiography prolongs the useful lite of radioactive sources.
BETTER RESULTS,ACCESS & ARCHIVING
Not only does CR with FD results get into the hands of the customer quicker, they also stay there with simple, convenient archiving services. MISTRAS' CR eliminates the need for film and the expensive costs that come with it. Rather than being transferred onto normal X-ray film, which is bulky and needs to be stored in a climate controlled environment, images captured with CR are digitized (FD).
These digitai images can be viewed and enhanced to aid interpretation and eliminate assumptions or the need to re-examine.
lnterpretation is easier too since digitai images can be marked, highlighted, and annotated for clearer interpretations. And the digitization of images improves workflow by allowingfor digitai archiving that enables easy future viewing and electronically sharing via email for fast approvals.
AFTER MARKET FILM DIGITIZATION SERVICES Adhering to its mission of being One Source for Asset Protection Solutions, MISTRAS also offers the ability to digitize film already obtained via conventional RT.
These capabilities allow MISTRAS to take a storage room full of X-Ray films and digitize them onto portable media such as a flash drive or CD;thus eliminating the costs associated with storage, space, and climate contro!.
COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY HELPS PRODUCE MILLIONS IN SAVINGS
In an outage for a large national utility, MISTRAS evaluated more than 15,000 welds of various diameters and thicknesses for weld quality and final code acceptance with Computed Radiography (CR) as a main diagnostic component - in lieu of trad itionalRadiography (RT).
The digitai inspection strategy allowed MISTRAS to operate multiple RT crews in a limited space. CR also allowed the weld ing contractor to utilize another area in close proximity for production. This scenario would not have been possible using trad itional radiography due to larger exclusion zones.
This comprehensive radiographic pian,coupled with Automated U rasonic Phased Array, allowed the utility to shorten the sched ule by 14 full production days,resulting in an estimated $14M cost reduction.
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