Portable, Battery-Powered X-ray for Imaging Anywhere

Turner Imaging Systems announced it will be releasing its Smart-C X-ray device, which is a tiny C-arm designed for imaging the extremities at the point of care. The device can be used inside clinical offices, surgical suites, and even taken in the field for help with disaster relief.

The Smart-C weighs in at only 16 pounds (7 Kg) and can be carried by one person without too much trouble. Since it’s powered by a battery, there’s not even a need to have a power outlet to use it. The wireless tablet that comes with it serves as a display. This could be the first battlefield X-ray machine, if such capability were necessary.

“The Smart-C will revolutionize how and where doctors use x-rays,” said D. Clark Turner, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Turner Imaging Systems, in a statement. “We envision the Smart-C being particularly useful for humanitarian aid workers, including Doctors Without Borders. Other specialty applications will include imaging in sports medicine, especially on the field or in the locker room, in-office outpatient orthopedic surgeries, care on military battlefields, extremity injections for pain management, mobile radiology units in rural areas, emergency rooms and much more.”

The system still has to be cleared by the FDA, but Turner Imaging is working on making that happen shortly.