[Report based on fiscal 2005 diagnostic X-ray equipment questionnaire survey-conditions of radiography-]

In this report, we summarize the survey of diagnostic X-ray equipment conducted in 2005, focusing on exposure conditions. What we would like to point out in this report is how prevalent digital image receptor systems have become, including flat panel detectors (FPD), which did not exist in our last survey five years ago. FPD have become popular very quickly among the digital receptor systems used in general radiography. Twenty-three percent of all chest standing-position X-ray equipment now have FPD. Since FPD has become prevalent, exposure conditions are becoming somewhat different from screen/film systems (s/f) and computed radiography (CR). While the image receptor system is expected to shift to FPD, we would like to continue our survey to determine what exposure conditions will be like in the near future.