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By Lindsay Suchow Photograph Courtesy Newton Veterinary Hospital
The world has gone digital—and film is a thing of the past.
Darkrooms might as well be lumped in with the Dark Ages as far as modern-day imagery is concerned: Television, cinema, even intimate snapshots on our own personal digi-cams—it’s all about computerized, crisp, electronic representations of what goes on around us … and inside us as well.
The Pompton Lakes-based A Walsh Imaging, Inc. has been providing X-ray equipment and film processors for nearly 40 years—but as the priorities of society shift, the company has been putting less emphasis on the latter and has instead focused on touting its offering of digital imaging gear.
Digital imaging is ideal for X-ray on a number of fronts, according to the company’s co-vice presidents, Thomas D. Walsh and Anthony Iurato, and president Patrick Walsh. Digital equipment makes for a more productive workflow, saves money on energy and materials, and is significantly less harsh on the environment.
“You have to change with the times,” says Iurato, “and a lot of big facilities are looking to go green.”
Digital Solutions and PACS technologies offered by A Walsh Imaging replace the conventional method of utilizing film and chemicals and instead creates a computerized image. According to the company’s website, the light-sensitive properties of silver composites allow the X-ray process to occur, which thereby creates highly toxic excess, classified as “special wastes” by the Environmental Protection Agency. Additionally, used film developer and fixer, with an offensive odor and even more offensive effect on one’s lungs, “are deemed corrosive hazardous waste by the EPA,” the company says. Digital X-ray eliminates the need for any film, or development, whatsoever.
Digital imaging, in addition to being greener and cleaner, eliminates the necessity for what Iurato refers to as consumables—film, chemical solutions for developing, etc.—which poses a great potential for companies to save loads of cash and time and also cuts down on shipping costs.
“After [business’] initial investment is satisfied, they’re saving on the consumables but they’re also saving on employee time because their workflow is changing,” Iurato says.
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