Product News: Tabletop Computed Radiography From GE

(GE: Billerica, MA) --  The CRxFlex is the latest addition to the suite of digital radiography conversion options from GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies. Reliable and versatile, the CRxFlex provides superior image quality making it the right choice for flaw detection in welds, cast parts, and corrosion/erosion detection in pipes. The scanner can be used with either isotopes or x-ray sources, and is designed for the rigorous radiographic inspection requirements encountered in the oil and gas, aerospace, power generation, automotive, and military sectors.

“By combining the innovative features of CRxFlex [1] with our Rhythm software platform [2], customers can now acquire, review, report and archive inspection data, allowing for faster defect detection and improved productivity,” say Juan Mario Gomez, product general manager radiography.

Unlike competitive phosphor scanners, CRxFlex can be used either with hard cassettes, in which the phosphor imaging plate never leaves the cassette, or it can scan any size of phosphor screen up to 14 x 17 inches. Any shape can be accommodated, including circles, triangles, rectangles, pie shape, etc. These individual imaging plates can be exposed using a soft, flexible cassette (with or without lead) before scanning. The combination of wide dynamic range and the high signal-to-noise ratio of the scanner allow for a broad range of thicknesses to be inspected in a single exposure, resulting in streamlined procedure development, less exposures and retakes, and increased component throughput.

The CRxFlex has a small tabletop footprint, and is designed to provide reliable operation within the harshest of nondestructive testing environments, offering long mean-time-between-failure and maintenance. To further minimize downtime, its internal modular construction allows easy and rapid field serviceability. Its horizontal transport system extends the life of the imaging plates, as it has little or no direct contact with the imaging plate during the scanning process. This eliminates the possibility of plate damage during the scan process and reduces general wear and tear.

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