Kodak''''s Health Imaging division, the leader in the laser imager market, announced that Kodak''''s DryView Laser Imagers have achieved an install base of 20,000 units. Kodak''''s DryView Laser Imagers offer proven performance based on eight years of clinical use by more than 25,000 radiologists worldwide. Kodak pioneered the use of dry laser imaging technology for medical radiography in India, in 2000. In two years Kodak India has sold 75 DryView Laser Imager, representing almost 25% of the total market in that period.

To commemorate the success of the sale of 20,000 DryView Laser Imagers worldwide, Kodak India is felicitating its earliest customers in the acceptance of DryView technology. Among these were GMR Institute of Imaging, Delhi and Ruby Clinic, Pune.

Commenting on the success Dr Mohan Nadkarni, Vice President, Kodak Health Imaging - India Cluster said, "The Kodak DryView Laser Imager portfolio is the largest and most versatile in the market, and Kodak continues to hold the leading position in the industry for both technology and market share. We are proud that GMR Institute and Ruby Hall Clinic, trusted us and became our partners by becoming the early test sites for the Kodak DryView laser imager when we first launched in India."

One of the main advantages of DryView technology is that it does not require any of the traditional chemicals for processing. In addition, the Imager requires less floor space than most traditional wet laser imagers and eliminates the need for a dark room, processor and special plumbing for disposing waste chemicals.

Kodak DryView systems are true Laser Imagers that feature excellent gray scale and superb, continuous tone. When used in conjunction with Kodak laser imaging film, the resulting archival images should last for more than 100 years. Kodak''''s family of DryView Laser Imagers also offers Kodak''''s Automatic Image Quality Control (AIQC) system.

Kodak also provides a gateway to PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications Systems) with PACS Link configurations of its DryView imagers. With this configuration, imagers can convert modality images to DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) and receive DICOM image data over a network for fast, flexible film output wherever it is needed.