The next generation DiagnosticPRO Advantage has a number of technological advances that will provide customers with increased "up-time," resulting in improved productivity and revenues. Higher speed, image quality, and reliability are just some of the new features of the DiagnosticPRO Advantage. With a Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) rate of >50,000 hours, a modular film feeder, and a field replaceable LED illuminator system, these technical advances have resulted in the highest reliability of any digitizer on the market. A number of patents have been filed based on these technical innovations that have set a new standard in medical film digitizer performance.

In addition to a higher level of image quality and more consistency, the DiagnosticPRO Advantage has been designed for increased speed. It digitizes film two times faster than previous models and will digitize up to 25 mixed-sized films in batch mode, allowing more productivity and greater efficiency — key benefits for radiology department personnel.

The DiagnosticPRO Advantage features the company's proprietary High Definition CCD (HD-CCD®) technology, and incorporates a substantially more sophisticated HD-CCD array and digital electronics design. Also, the unique ADC (Automatic Digitizer Calibration) prompts the film digitizer to calibrate automatically before every film digitized, and eliminates the need for user intervention for this operation. VIDAR's ADC feature results in virtually no variation in image quality, and ensures excellent grayscale reproduction in every image.

The DiagnosticPRO Advantage, with its high-resolution capabilities (44.5 microns), provides the ability to digitize mammography films, and offers larger spot size options for digitizing general radiographic, CT, MR, ultrasound, and nuclear medicine films.

The DiagnosticPRO Advantage exceeds the American College of Radiology Teleradiology Practice Guidelines. In addition, VIDAR offers the only 32-bit data path in the industry to maximize grayscale accuracy and performance.

Compact and Affordable for a Variety of Healthcare Settings: The award-winning SIERRA Advantage film digitizer, developed by VIDAR Systems Corporation, represents a significant advance in film digitizer technology, and overcomes some of the most common barriers to digitizer use — quality, cost, and size. The ACR-compliant SIERRA Advantage is a cost-effective digitizer for integration of outlying clinics and low-volume digitizing. The SIERRA Advantage digitizer continues to be small enough to be easily wall-mounted, solving siting problems commonly found at hospitals and radiology offices. It features easy USB connectivity, an LED lighting system, and is available with a single-sheet or 10-sheet film feeder. With VIDAR's next-generation proprietary High Definition CCD (HD-CCD®) technology, and its unique ADC (Automatic Digitizer Calibration) feature, there is virtually no variation in image quality, and an excellent grayscale reproduction in every image is ensured. The RoHS compliant SIERRA Advantage meets the needs of healthcare professionals for a high quality, affordable, compact film digitizer capable of being integrated into a variety of healthcare settings, including at the point of care.

Maintenance Free Design and Lower Cost of Ownership: Unlike other digitizers that require biannual calibration or cleaning, VIDAR digitizers need no maintenance or calibration, saving nearly $2,000 annually. The straight-line film path reduces the need for costly service calls ($500 or more each) due to film jams. Parts replacement, on-site service, shipping, and service costs for factory repairs can reach $4,500 annually for laser digitizers.