CR Advantages
• Improved image quality
• Works like film (similar work flow)
• Able to retrofit existing x-ray
equipment
• Mobile radiography is easily
accomplished
• Less expensive than DR technology
DR Advantages
• Optimum image quality
• No processing time and immediate image
acquisition
• No imaging plates or cassettes to deal
with
• CCD technology has a price point slightly
above CR
CR Disadvantages
• Initial cost more than film-based
systems
• More processing time than DR
• Handling of cassettes
DR Disadvantages
• Flat panel is considerable more expensive
than CR
• May not retrofit existing x-ray
equipment
• Difficult to use in a mobile environment
• Cannot perform cross table x-ray imaging
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Digital CR and DR Comparison