Unlike medical imaging, where imaging protocols are precisely adjusted for different clinical applications and body parts; industrial imaging faces situations that the imaging systems are not aware of the exact part they are aimed to reveal the industrial data from. It therefore requires real time image processing and image adjustment algorithms to identify the ROI to manipulate parameters for highest accuracy in industrial data.

After the acquisition process, the image contains a valuable set of data; where the inspector could navigate through. Image enhancement tools such as window leveling, pseudo coloring or pixel intensity projection could help revealing the defects that might be naked to inspector’s eyes due to the constant observation of similar grayscale images. Less false diagnosis would therefore secure the future of products and UX.

Regardless of how advance a radiography’s detector and X-Ray emitter be, the brain that make them work synchronized distinguish one from the other. Image Signal Processing has become advanced to intelligent signal processing of radiographic image acquisition once being responsible for the integration of the X-Ray source and detector. Dose reduction along with increasing the value of clinical data is the critical ability of Falcon Ray radiographic systems that are utilized by advanced image processing and adjustment algorithms to manage acquiring a proper set of defect data within the image.

When increasing quantum efficiency of a detector, more signal to noise ratio, as well as a higher range of defect data could be acquired. Falcon Ray to that end, has obtained back-illuminated CMOS sensor technology to optimize each photodiodes aperture to its widest. This would allow higher photon intensity to charge the diode. Otherwise the quantum efficiency is being enhanced with our CsI scintilators as well.

X-Ray sources being driven by high frequency power supplies or SMPS, are highly efficient in producing X-Ray as their emission remains constant during the exposure period. Low frequency x-ray sources in contrast, turn on and off for 100 to 120 times per second as the alternating current changes, where images experience the fogs caused by different levels of X-Ray energy and therefore noise on defect data.

Any digital X-Ray detector has an entity called the Dynamic Range, which is referred to the distance between the whitest white and the blackest black. Gray level is likewise applied within this area. When a detector provides its image data to the Image Signal Processor of the radiography, it is crucial for image processing algorithms to drive the source and detector in a way that splits the dynamic range across the area, where the required defect exists. Therefore it is crucial for digital radiographies to capture the defect data of interest by adjusting the right point for the true white in real time.

In contrast to low frequency X-Ray sources that used heavy transformers, capacitors and rectifiers, high frequency X-Ray sources employ switch mode power supplies that reduce the source size and weight to a great extent. Otherwise due to the power efficiency of such sources, low weight batteries could derive the privilege of high ergonomy for the user to perform the imaging procedure in hostile conditions!

The equivalent and absorbing dose for low frequency X-Ray sources could be much higher than the state of the art high frequency ones. This is due to the constant emission energy of high frequency sources and therefore the lower exposure time. Otherwise as digital imaging requires much less dose then the conventional, it has made it the perfect solution. Also the dose could not even be compared to Gamma Cameras.

Digital imaging for industrial radiography brings enormous gifts to application and workflow, the ability of realtime and post image processing as well as DICONDE protocols and their privilege of being used in PACS networks for image and report management. Computed Tomography is the alternative privilege by digital imaging. However neither of this advancements are feasible by low frequency X-Ray sources or Gamma Cameras!

Whereas X-Ray emitters provide a range of energies through their spectrum of coverage, Gamma cameras are monochromatic sources, where not a suitable graylevel could be constructed by. On the other hand low frequency X-Ray sources are not enjoying the constant energy output of their high frequency generation. Therefore, high frequency X-Ray sources could establish a wider dynamic range in the image data.