Advanced Application Technology
- Advanced Application Technology
Advanced Application Technology
Slot Radiography
SLOT Advance(Slot Radiography option enhanced for SONIALVISION G4) provides images with long fields of view, such as for full spine or full leg images, just by a very simple workflow, while also offering high accuracy images with minimal X-ray dose.
SLOT Advance acquires a series of only accurate images of a few centimeters central slit as the imaging chain successively moves along the patient.
Providing super high accuracy measurements
SLOT Advance collimates the X-ray beam, so that it only exposes a narrow central slit field without distortion caused by oblique rays. These central slit images are captured using the SONIALVISION's super-high resolution Flat Panel Detector (FPD) by moving it in parallel with the X-ray tube. These successive images are then automatically reconstructed to create one long image in SONIALVISION G4's digital imaging unit (DR-300).
Therefore, this enables very high accuracy measurements without distortion, even with a very simple workflow.
Slot Radiography
Accurate measurements
CR stitching
Extra-wide Imagining Range
The combination of SONIALVISION G4's extra-long imaging chain slide coverage and 17” large FPD realizes even wider imaging coverage (Max.145cm × 42cm) than that of CR's image stitching.

Significant reduction of examination time
Simply set the starting and ending positions, then start the exposure.That's all it takes to obtain proper long view images using our Slot Radiography. All the post-processing required to connect, adjust, and display the images on the monitor is done automatically immediately after exposure.
SLOT Advance by a SONIALVISION system eliminates the time-consuming steps of setting up the cassette and making adjustments, not to mention moving the patient between standing and horizontal positions, which are all required by conventional CR long-length imaging.
![]() Wide imaging range to cover from cervical spine to lumbar spine |
![]() Accurate alignment evaluation |
LITERATURE
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Experience Using RADspeed Pro EDGE and its Operation at Sendai Nishitaga Hospital (PDF 3.15MB)
Yuma Arakawa
Department of Radiology, Sendai Nishitaga Hospital -
SONIALVISION G4 High-Performance R/F System and its Tomosynthesis, SLOT Advance, and Bone Density Measurement Applications for High Quality Diagnosis (PDF 1.67MB)
Kazuya Takeuchi
Takeuchi Rheumatism Orthopedic Surgery Clinic -
Investigation of the reliability of spino-pelvic parameter measurements -Intraobserver and Interobserver Reliabilities- (PDF 6.26MB)
Yasuhide Koshika M.D., Ph.D.
Spine Center, Chiba Central Medical Center -
Measurement of whole spine sagittal alignment using the SLOT radiography of the SONIALVISION safire series clinical application (PDF 3.01MB)
Kenji Endo, M.D.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University Hospital -
Medical Now#77: Using Tomosynthesis Images for Measuring Total Spine Alignment Parameters Using the SONIALVISION safire Series (PDF 5.79MB)
Mr. Yasuyuki Morita, Department of Central Radiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital
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Medical Now#77: Comparison of Long View Radiography Systems (PDF 1.45MB)
Mr. Hiroki Sato, Department of Radiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East
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Medical Now#76: Using the SONIALVISION G4 for Orthopedics - Utility of the SLOT Advance Application - (PDF 1.79MB)
Yukio Amamiya, Sanraku Hospital, Japan
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Medical Now#76: Applications and Present Issues of Tomosynthesis in Spine Surgery (PDF 3.08MB)
Yoshiharu Kato, Professor and Chairman, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University
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Medical Now#69: Utility of Slot Radiography and Epicondylar View After Implant Arthroplasties (PDF 2.36MB)
Mr. kazuya Goto, Department of Radiology, NTT East Corp. Sapporo Hospital
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Clinical Applications to Orthopaedics by New X-ray Technology (PDF 2.77MB)
Report from 83rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
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Medical Now#68 : Experiences with Slot Radiography Using SONIALVISION safire 17 -Applications to Limb Lengthening Surgery of the Lower Limbs- (PDF 4.72MB)
Dr.Takahide Okamoto, Mr. Toshihiro Minami, Mr. Tsuyoshi Mori and Mr. Norihito Yamazaki,Teikyo University Hospital
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Medical Now#66: Experience of Using Slot Radiography -Experimental Use for Lower Extremity Venography- (PDF 2.95MB)
Mr.Shigeji Ichikawa, Department of Radiology, Fussa Hospital
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Medical Now#65: Clinical Experience with Slot Radiography using SONIALVISION safire II, and Its Utility -Lower Limb Region- (PDF 3.68MB)
Mr.Kazuya Goto, MD, Department of Radiology, NTT East Corp. Sapporo Hospital
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Medical Now#65: Clinical Experience Using the Slot Scan Function with an X-Ray Fluoroscopy System (PDF 2.57 MB)
Nobuhito Handa: Fukushima Medical University Hospital, Department of Radiology