Portable X-ray machines "can literally be the difference between life and death", says radiographer Sam Pilkington. For most of us, if we need to be X-rayed the procedure is done in a hospital.

Munich, now 18, has used the machine to x-ray some household items, including a pen and a computer hard drive. Theoretically, he says, it could be used for hands or limbs.

Also, portable X-Ray machines shorten wait times for results, taking less than 20 minutes to complete their scans, providing high quality images allowing doctors and physicians to treat patients ...

A portable X-ray imaging machine used to track stars millions of miles away could be developed for detecting early cancers. 2D X-ray machines can often miss signs of cancer until the disease is ...

Additionally, the new portable X-ray machine provides immediately available digital images. Such equipment is often used in hospitals in "code blue" emergency situations where a patient's lungs ...

The key component of [Grenadier]’s portable x-ray machine is the Coolidge tube, a simple vacuum tube that produces x-rays with the help of 75 kilovolts of power. The finished build looks awesome.

"They should not replace conventional fixed x-ray units but should be used to supplement them," he noted. Portable intraoral x-ray machines came on the market in the 1990s and have been growing in ...

Right now, Lt. Knurr said it takes them about 15 minutes to x-ray a package to determine its safety, but a new donation from SharpLogixx in Green Bay will cut that time down to three minutes ...

Developed by a Japanese company called Mikasa for emergency medical use in the field, particularly when there’s no power after a disaster, the TRB9020H portable x-ray machine weighs just 15 ...