From the official launch ....
'The EOS Imager will change the way orthopaedic and spinal patients are diagnosed and treated. It will have implications for patients with back pain, hip and knee problems – where vertical weight bearing images of bones are helpful. It has significant implications for children with paediatric scoliosis.
Significantly, the EOS:
- Results in up to 9 times less radiation dose (significant less radiation risk)
- Takes only 10-20 seconds for a scan (patients stand in a booth)
- Provides amazing images of full size standing weight bearing patients (Drs now have one continuous digital image and can now see weight-bearing impact on patients; piecing together of multiple individual x-rays no longer required)
- Provides geometrically a
- Views images in real time (quicker diagnosis)
- Gives better clarity of images (can result in better diagnosis/better view of spinal alignment/potentially less repeat surgery)
- Enables potentially treatment transforming research into spinal anatomy
- Is Nobel Prize winning technology'
Dr Ball has started to operate at Dalcross and continues to work with his mentor and colleague Dr Bill Sears both there and at the Spinal Injuries Unit of the Royal north Shore Hospital.
