Your Guide to Medical Imaging Equipment

Are you having trouble keeping your OEC 6800 or 6600 mini C-arm in position? Does the articulating arm gradually sag lower and lower throughout your scans? If so, there's no need to worry. This is actually a very common problem, you'd be far from the first mini C-arm user to ask us about it, and it happens to be a very easy problem to solve as well.

Follow the 5 simple steps in the video below (or scroll to the text version if preferred) to return your OEC mini C-arm to the firm, stable positioning it had when you first acquired it.

Over the last seventeen years, Genoray has been developing and releasing increasingly sophisticated C-arm systems and gradually increasing their presence in the market. It's been a bold endeavor, considering the stiff competition from longer-standing C-arm manufacturers like OEC and Siemens, but as more recent iterations of their equipment begin to emerge on the secondary market, Genoray systems have shown our team and our customers that they are well worth considering alongside names you might be more familiar with.

To help inform you as you explore the options for your next C-arm solution, we've put together a brief video overview of the specifications, user experience, and overall value of Genoray's Zen 7000 C-arm. 

The OEC 9800 is a stalwart, go-to C-arm system in thousands of hospitals and clinics, and if you look into the C-arm marketplace for even a minute, refurbished 9800s will be one of the first few systems you see. Of course, the notoriety of an established system doesn't mean that relative newcomers don't have anything to offer your facility. This is precisely why we'd like to share more with you about a model that has found its way onto the secondary market in more recent years: Genoray's Zen-7000.

Watch the brief video clip below to see how the OEC 9800 and the Genoray Zen-7000 stack up in terms of features, performance, and user experience.

Block Imaging's imaging equipment Service Team, confronts a broad variety of equipment issues every day. Recently, an account we handle experienced "sticking" or "binding" between the gears in their OEC 9900 CCD camera.

Fortunately, we were able to diagnose their problem and get them scanning again quickly. If you notice a similar problem emerging in your system, keep reading to learn what to expect from a CCD camera gear repair.

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